Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everyday that a famous New York Times columnist asks you to apologize. But yesterday, it happened...
...owned by Hilton. Characters like Benny Binion, who bragged of killing those who crossed him, and Bill Harrah, who in his 60s drag-raced with teenagers on Reno streets, have been displaced by quiet, invisible graduates of business schools. The last convicted felon to be spotted by a local columnist on the Strip was Michael Milken, the junk-bond king. "What this town needs," says Bob Stupak, the crusty owner of Vegas World, "is that scent of vice, a little sin, to stir that desire to come to Las Vegas...
...media coverage has been glowing, however. Boston Globe columnist Michael Blowen was unimpressed with the magazine, writing in yesterday's paper that Inside Edge "brings new meaning to 'sophomoric'...I mean no 'soph' and very 'moric...
Taxin, however, had several positive comments on the magazine. "I really liked the models. I want to find out who this 'Monique person' [an Edge advice columnist] is and when I do I'm going to ask her to my formal and she's going...
Insiders disagree on whether the shifting views are fostered by the A.C.L.U.'s in-house affirmative-action plan that requires the board, formerly dominated by white males, to be at least 50% female and 20% minority. Whatever the reason, old soldiers like Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and columnist Nat Hentoff, both onetime A.C.L.U. board members, see a serious threat to single-minded support of individual liberty. Dershowitz asserts that "the A.C.L.U. is a very different organization today." To him, the key tenet of the A.C.L.U. faith is support for free-speech rights for "causes that you despise." Without that...