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...face at night the very powers that Sally Quinn was skewering by day. Graham never killed a story, although she occasionally rolled her eyes in sympathy with a deflated pol. At the paper she was a regular presence in the newsroom, even taking classified ads during the violent pressmen's strike of the mid-'70s. She visited the child-care centers she funded, folding her 6-ft. frame into many a kiddie-size chair. Last week, at an elite retreat in Sun Valley, Idaho, after lunch with Tom Hanks and before dinner with Mexican President Vicente Fox, she fell...
...face at night the very powers that Sally Quinn was skewering by day. Graham never killed a story, although she occasionally rolled her eyes in sympathy with a deflated pol. At the paper she was a regular presence in the newsroom, even taking classified ads during the violent pressmen's strike of the mid-'70s. She visited the child-care centers she funded, folding her 6-ft. frame into many a kiddie-size chair. Last week, at an elite retreat in Sun Valley, Idaho, after lunch with Tom Hanks and before dinner with Mexican President Vicente Fox, she fell...
...performed by the some1,300 new employees the company says are permanent replacements. The move represents a last-ditch effort by the unions to salvage a walkout that has not gone as well as hoped. The unions, representing more than 2,000 employees ranging from delivery drivers and pressmen to reporters and editors, were united in their conviction that Detroit Newspapers set out to break them. However, they were hindered from the beginning by an inability to coordinate or, ironically, to communicate clearly their rationale for striking. Many of the papers' best-known columnists, frustrated by union leadership and tempted...
...Watergate, hell," his neighbor said. "We're cheering because she broke the pressmen's union...
...union-busting is needed to reach this goal, then so be it. But reporters are easier game then pressmen. All a publisher has to do is encourage in the poor saps the belief that they are working for something far more precious than money: The Truth...