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...might be argued that former Vermont Governor Howard Dean also passed the Bennett test, but he only did so under duress. He was asked about a quote from 1996, in which he heaped slag upon the Children's Defense Fund's founder, Marian Wright Edelman, for being one of those "liberals" who wrongly opposed the welfare-reform bill. He retracted the slag - Edelman, a study in demure imperiousness, was seated in the front row - but not the sentiment. He said he embraced welfare reform in Vermont and implied that he did it better than Clinton. But then, to hear Dean...
...judge finished by saying that he was inclined to dismiss, which would mean an end to Edelman’s suit, and to some, including Edelman, a blow to free speech on the Internet...
...That was rough,” Edelman says after the judge left the court room...
After the hearing, Edelman stands around outside the courtroom talking to his lawyers and to Seth Finkelstein, an independent researcher who shares many of Edelman’s interests...
...Edelman doesn’t spend much time on post-mortems...