Word: columning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been almost gratuitously antipress. He dissented from an opinion by his rival for the high court, Judge Bork, that threw out a suit by Bertell Ollman, a New York University professor who had been vilified as a Marxist by Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak. Bork held that the column was merely opinion and thus protected speech; Scalia argued that it was "a coolly crafted libel." In his 100-page dissent, Scalia wondered why columnists, "even with full knowledge of the falsity or recklessness of what they say, should be able to destroy private reputations at will." Describing Scalia...
...overseers whose election will be announced at Commencement can begin taking a constructive role here. They have a clear opportunity to serve their alma mater as more than marks in the credits column of some future fundraising drive. If they care for Harvard enough to hate its injustices, they must publicly condemn Derek Bok's action...
...into what reporters called an argument but he preferred to term a Socratic dialogue on the subject of organized crime, Cuomo said, "You're telling me that Mafia is an organization, and I'm telling you that's a lot of baloney." When he read a newspaper column that suggested an Italian could not be elected President, he told a reporter, "If anything could make me change my mind about running for the presidency, it's people talking about, 'An Italian can't do it; a Catholic can't do it.' " Sometimes Cuomo sounds self-serving, as though...
...penalty for making trades in CIGNA stock based on intelligence it had garnered from company insiders. Last year R. Foster Winans, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for trading in stocks that he had intended to plug in his column for the paper, and Paul Thayer, former chairman of LTV, received a four-year term for obstructing a Government investigation into his role in an insider stock- trading scheme...
...portrayed in beard and mortarboard on the cover of TIME for a story that described the nation's college graduating class as "the most conscience-stricken, moralistic, and, perhaps, the most promising" in U.S. history. As an editor of UCLA's Daily Bruin, Weiss gained notoriety by writing a column calling the Governor of California, Ronald Reagan, "a liar." With the breathtaking cockiness of his class and era, Weiss breezily declared, "I can see myself as an excellent U.S. President...