Word: koch
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...unhappiness of people who have every reason to be happy is always fascinating, and the story of former Miss America Bess Myerson is riveting. Quiz-show star, New York City's Commissioner of Cultural Affairs, walker of Mayor Ed Koch, candidate for U.S. Senate, she fell from grace with a thud. Although the ending of the Bess Mess is known -- she was acquitted of bribery charges stemming from her affair with a married man -- it is a tribute to Shana Alexander's storytelling that the reader believes at points along the way that Myerson and those around her could...
Former New York Mayor Edward I. Koch was outspoken as ever on his visit to Harvard on Sunday. He said he was enjoying his post-political life, which involves co-hosting a TV show, doing daily radio commentary and writing a weekly column for The New York Post...
Using the case of Andy Rooney's suspension fromCBS for allegedly making racist and anti-gayremarks, Koch railed against the suppression ofcontroversial speech. He said that the freedom ofspeech was often extended unevenly, applying tomembers of the radical left but not to members ofthe radical right...
...Take two scum of the earth," he said."Reverend [Louis] Farrakhan and Rabbi [Meir]Kahane. Both have the right to speak. If Farrakhancame he'd be allowed to speak; if Kahane camethey'd break up the meeting," said Koch, referringrespectively to the Muslim nationalist accused ofanti-semitism and the Israeli Knesset member whohas taken strong anti-Palestinian positions...
...Although Koch quoted Voltaire's famous dictum"I disagree with what you say, but I will fight tothe death for your right to say it" he put it moredirectly later. "Stupid people have the right toexpress stupid ideas," he said