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...million to $14 million a year. Once in a tight race with the Los Angeles Times, the paper suffered a nine-year strike that began in 1967 and cost it 400,000 readers. Now the Herald Examiner's 170 editorial employees seem destined to play David to the Goliath Times (circ. 1.1 million), with its 850 staffers and annual profits of $200 million. Though the Herald has much to commend it, including playing up local stories and sometimes producing sprightlier writing than the Times, Hearst seems unsure what to do with its laggard child. Company officials, especially Robert Danzig, general...
...Ramirez produces fiction -- has also become a government of censors. Nor does he flinch from recording the naivete of teenage soldiers eager for battle. Yet such imperfections are not enough to prevent him from rooting for what he regards as a brave Nicaraguan David up against the North American Goliath. "Were these dictators in the making?" he asks of his ostentatious hosts. "No. Emphatically, no. They struck me as men of integrity and great pragmatism...
Perversely, Gloucester has spurned this offer, rallying behind Geller. And WVCA has managed to endure. The newspapers have described the case as an "epic David-and-Goliath struggle." And the mayor of Gloucester has pointed out, in case anyone forgets, that in the original, it was David who won. (Bell notes an irony in this: Geller's cause has been represented in Washington by a public interest law group paid for by foundations and corporations considerably more powerful than Grandbanke.) The next round is scheduled for argument in federal court this fall. In the end, Geller believes, the station will...
Outsiders seem to buy the scholar-athlete myth. A March 31 story in The New York Times on the NCAA men's ice hockey final used an extended David vs. Goliath metaphor to praise Harvard's noble effort...
...like Gaddafi any more than we do," he says. "But we put them into the position of having to choose between him and us." Although Washington hoped the operation would diminish the Libyan's prestige, it seemed more likely to reinforce his self-proclaimed image as a David against Goliath. Notes William Quandt, Middle Eastern specialist at the Brookings Institution: "I think we have helped to prop up Gaddafi internally, made it harder for his opposition to get a hand...