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Robertson's 1991 book, The New World Order argues that the last two centuries have witnessed an anti-Christian conspiracy involving, among others, European Jewish Bankers, Bavarian Freemasons, and Bolsheviks. The book draws heavily on explicitly anti-Semitic tracts from the early twentieth century. In what New York Times columnist Frank Rich has called a 'bait and switch,' Robertson quotes almost verbatim from these works, leaving out of his own work the glaringly obvious anti-Semitic remarks that permeate such rightly forgotten books as Nesta Webster's 1922 World Revolution: Plot Against Civilization...
...anyone knew how to get the best medical treatment, it was Betsy Lehman. A health columnist who had worked at the Boston Globe since 1982, she had covered everything from leading-edge research to the finer points of a physician's bedside manner. When she learned she had an advanced case of breast cancer, she carefully studied her options and chose to undergo an experimental treatment offered at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a prestigious hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School. Tragically, the 39-year-old mother of two died in December. But as a front-page story...
...tremendous popularity of the book is something Berendt, a former editor of New York magazine and current columnist for Esquire, had not anticipated. A native of Syracuse, New York, he got the idea for his book three years after he took a weekend trip to Savannah in 1982. But the first literary agent to whom he submitted his manuscript turned it down, claiming it was too local and uncommercial. "When I was writing it people asked me if I thought it would be a best seller," says Berendt, "and I said, 'Are you kidding?' I thought it would...
...simply madness. There is no other word for it. Dollar after dollar is thrown into tournament pools, upset after upset occurs, and columnist after columnist makes a fool of himself with printed tournament predictions...
...Peninsula has done something Bad, and the evidence is too horrible to be revealed. Mr. Rascoff's refusal to say exactly why he was so upset by the photographs conveniently relieves him of the responsibility for making any reasoned criticism of them. (How easy the life of a Crimson columnist must...