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Indeed, conservative writers like William Safire and Rush Limbaugh, silent during the Reagan-Bush years, have more than picked up the slack with Clinton in the White House, When these journalists try to dig up dirt, their targets are almost always on the other side of the political spectrum. Liberals investigate conservatives, and vice versa. Those who complain of a bias in the media can only be justified if they are referring to the former section; and no conclusive of basis in the factual reporting section has been put forth...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Press Is Unfairly Lynched | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...full of "perfectly insane people." Frank Lloyd Wright once hypothesized that all the loose nuts in America end up in Los Angeles because of the continental tilt. California is La-La Land, Shangri-La La, a place that twice elected a guy nicknamed "Moonbeam" governor. Yes, getting a good dig in at California is a bonafide American tradition...

Author: By Jay Kim, | Title: Alive and Well in California | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

...When some quirky issue arises, such as whocould control fossils in an archaeological dig inMontana, we find out who is involved in it atHarvard and get their opinion," he says...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Lobbyists Guard Harvard's Interests From Lawmakers | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

Harvard turnovers and poor first-half shooting (.267) allowed Hartford to dig the Crimson a huge hole, but players said the comeback proved that Harvard can play with anyone...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, | Title: Cagers Start The New Year With L's | 1/5/1994 | See Source »

...fair to Cross, a few of Stager's other friends have also imputed to me an imputation of anti-Semitism to him. The most interesting instance of these is Leon Levy, the Wall Street Financier who provides the funds for Stager's Ashkelon dig. Levy and I have known each other for some years, and we met by accident in the lobby of a London hotel only ten days ago. He upbraided me for what he called my "anti-Semitic insinuations about Stager." I was appalled, and told him that this was an invention (maybe his, maybe Stager's) which...

Author: By Martin Peretz, | Title: Cleaning Out the Mailbag: The Semitic Museum | 1/5/1994 | See Source »

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