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...revolves around a 1974 brawl at a high school wrestling match in Lake County, Ohio. As a result of that fracas, former wrestling coach Michael Milkovich was officially censured and his team put on probation. The penalties, however, were set aside after a court hearing. That led indignant sports columnist J. Theodore Diadiun to write in the Lake County News-Herald: "Anyone who attended the meet . . . knows in his heart that Milkovich and ((school superintendent H. Donald)) Scott lied at the hearing after each having given his solemn oath to tell the truth. But they got away with...
...dumped William Shawn, editor of the New Yorker since 1952, barely a year after describing Shawn as one of the three most influential men in his life. Having been widely lambasted for letting Grace Mirabella learn of her 1988 ouster from Vogue through a TV report by gossip columnist Liz Smith, Si diligently informed Anthea Disney in person last year that she was through at Self -- by making a clumsy unannounced visit to her Connecticut home, where she was vacationing. Soon after Robert Bernstein resigned in November after 23 years as president of Random House, a seemingly orchestrated campaign portrayed...
...stockholder dispute could result in protracted litigation and block a potential sale. The U.S. Tax Court agreed and thus effectively ensured that the family would not have to sell off properties, as other media clans have had to do, to pay the tax bill. Wrote Washington Post economic columnist Robert Samuelson: "The scheme's beauty, of course, is that the Newhouses can apparently have it both ways. For estate tax purposes, the value of the company is artificially lowered. But should the family ever want to sell, it can easily realize the company's full market value by offering...
...point. Since January, Brooklyn's Flatbush section had been roiled by a black boycott of two Korean grocers that began after a Haitian woman accused the Koreans of assaulting her in an argument over a dollar's worth of fruit. Two weeks ago, Newsday's Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist Jimmy Breslin was suspended for aiming a tirade of racial and sexual slurs at an Asian-American co-worker who had criticized his work. At Long Island University's Brooklyn campus, a brawl broke out when a white professor from the City College of New York delivered a lecture proclaiming white genetic...
...Vietnamese with a hammer, but in a fight that started after a 13- year-old girl tossed a bottle through an apartment window. Immediately after the fracas, police hung a sign on the Vietnamese victim's apartment building: REWARD. THIS IS A BIAS ASSAULT CRIME SCENE. Wrote Daily News columnist Mike McAlary: "In this moment you can hang the sign on the entire city...