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Until a little while ago, the one surprise the Globe had to offer on its op-ed page was the conservative columnist Jeff Jacoby, a thoughtful man whose own orthodoxy at least went against the drearily predictable grain of the paper. But now the Globe has suspended Jacoby, without pay, for four months. The suspension lasts - what a coincidence! - until just after the elections in November...
...Boston Globe has a problematic history with columnists of late. Two of them - Patricia Smith and Mike Barnicle - have been obliged to leave for very real offenses. Jeff Jacoby is the Kimba Wood here. He has been forced to leave (without pay, for four months) for wholly spurious reasons...
Attentive readers of the newspapers this week may have noticed an odd coincidence. On Monday, the day before Independence Day, Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby devoted his op-ed column to a stirring remembrance of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, many of whom are now forgotten to history. He reserved his highest praise for an obscure signer from New Jersey, John Hart. Read carefully: "[Hart] was forced to flee in the winter of 1776, at the age of 65, from his dying wife's bedside. While he hid in forests and caves, his home was demolished...
...when these Internet elephants begin to stumble, the mice get crushed. For every Amazon or Yahoo, there are 10,000 smaller Net companies that never got the chance to go public--and now probably never will. For those companies and their employees, who believed just as hard as Jeff Bezos and Jerry Yang but got to the barricades a lot later, the business climate is drastically different. Call it the new new economy...
...JEFF BEZOS Amazon.com stock tanks. But this wunderkind CEO still richer than...