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Maggie Gallagher, a conservative columnist for New York Newsday and National Review, is the next subject of Mayo's derision. Since Gallagher holds something of the positions of power that feminists subscribe for women, Mayo doesn't have much to say here--so he makes something up. Quoting from my summary of Gallagher, Mayo writes, "Maggie Gallagher, a conservative columnist, believes that `women need the support of men...and it is only within the commitment of marriage that this support is guaranteed.'" Unfortunately, the sentence actually read, "Because of their desires, women need the support of men (as men need...
...Republican challenger's proposal to set a 90-day limit on stays in homeless shelters, calling it an example of Giuliani's coldness and lack of compassion. At least three scheduled debates have been canceled because the candidates couldn't agree on the rules. The attacks prompted New York Newsday last week to portray the two candidates in swaddling clothes under the Page One headline two big babies...
Reno comes from a long line of memorable women. "Mother's mother and Father's mother were absolutely indomitable," says Janet's brother Robert Reno, a New York Newsday columnist. "All the women in the family were. The men were strong too. They just had no talent for marrying spineless women." Janet's maternal grandmother Daisy Sloan Hunter Wood was a genteel Southern lady who lost her own mother and two sisters to tuberculosis and instilled in her children and grandchildren a passionate commitment to duty and family. In World War II, daughter Daisy became a nurse, landing with General...
...confluence of two great social movements in 1968, the civil rights and anti-war movements," said Friedman, who is now Special Projects Editor at New York Newsday...
Other winners included Roy Gutman of Newsday and John Burns of the New York Times, who shared an international reporting prize for their dispatches from Bosnia. Burns was not on the list of finalists, and there were allegations that the Times applied last-minute pressure to the Pulitzer jury. David McCullough won the biography prize for Truman, the book that triggered the "I'm Truman . . . No, I'm Truman" cross talk during last year's presidential campaign. A surprise came with an award to Robert Olen Butler for his short-story collection seen through the eyes of exiled Vietnamese...