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Hiaasen, a columnist for the Miami Herald, is a funny fellow who regards human Floridians as a notch below palmetto bugs in matters of ethics and compassion. His new crime novel about South Florida, the sixth in a very good run, is caustic and comic. The author's method hasn't varied since the first, Tourist Season: turn over a rock and watch in glee and honest admiration as those little rascals squirm in the light...
Political gaffes--including the misspelling of the word potato by former vice president Dan Quayle--were the subject of a discussion with Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby yesterday at the Institute of Politics...
...example of gaffe journalism as it worst, Jacoby pointed to a quote Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) gave in November of last year to a columnist from the Raleigh News & Observer newspaper. "Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He better have a bodyguard," Helms told the paper...
Apparently, your columnist views black opinion as nearly monolithic and thinks that because Thomas is black, he must represent the views of liberal civil rights organizations. It is demeaning and condescending to try to lump the diverse members of an entire community into one orthodoxy and deem only one view authentic. No one would suggest that Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer must reflect "Jewish views," or that Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy must represent "Irish opinions." Moreover, the Supreme Court is not a representative body; its members are appointed for life so that they...
...they maintain the paper would have been in the black by next year. "They wanted to do a ritual slaughter for the amusement of Wall Street. They've done it, and the 80 children of the Chandler family made lots of money," says Jim Dwyer, a New York Newsday columnist who was unsuccessful in negotiating an employee buyout...