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...front. Inside, all previous scores and rankings have been dropped. Everything now depends on which poems the judges like tonight. We draw first up; it's disappointing, but we're confident. We wait through the band and featured poets. (During the slam, a slam veteran, Patricia Smith, the columnist who was forced to resign from the Boston Globe for fabricating stories, had brought an audience to tears when she concluded a reading with the lines, "Man did not give this gift to me. Man cannot take it away...
DIED. JIM MURRAY, 78, irrepressible Los Angeles Times sports columnist whose witty dispatches made him a most valuable player on the sports beat; of cardiac arrest; in Los Angeles. Murray spent 37 years at the Times giving sports junkies a morning fix of his laugh-a-line musings. One of four sports writers to score a Pulitzer Prize for commentary, Murray greeted his award with characteristic humor: "This is going to make it a little easier on the guy who writes my obit...
...appropriate. Yet those who see a double standard have a point. The main reason Barnicle was able to hang on to his job is that a powerful network of whites leaped to his defense. Radio talk show host Don Imus, NBC Washington bureau chief Tim Russert, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen and CNN's Larry King minimized the seriousness of Barnicle's transgressions. Staples, the big office-supply chain, hinted that it might yank its advertising if Barnicle left the Globe. The pressure gave Barnicle time to make his case for leniency and moved Storin to find a face-saving...
...just thinking[1]...that without the factor of race, last week's big dustup over Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnicle would have been seen as much ado about nothing.[2] The only reason anyone cared whether Barnicle, a white male, had recycled--without attribution--a few one-liners from comedian George Carlin was that only a few weeks ago another Globe columnist, Patricia Smith, a black female, had been forced to resign for making up stories...
...think this long national nightmare could be ended with a 4-minute half-apology? It seems so; the rally that began Monday with the President's testimony only picked up steam the morning after his terse speech, with the Dow rising almost 140 points by closing. TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec thinks investors are kidding themselves...