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...more distressing aspects of the recent Baird/Wood imbroglio involved listening to paleo-liberals like Anna Quindlen, Ellen Goodman and Patricia Ireland spout pieties about the availability of childcare...
Baird was not without defenders, particularly among parents with firsthand experience of a child-care nightmare. "It is ironic," wrote columnist Anna Quindlen, "that the first woman Attorney General-designate has been tripped up by that thing that trips us up day after day, makes us late for meetings, causes us to call in sick when we are well: the struggle for good surrogate care for our kids. Hard sometimes even if you are well to do. Horrid often if you are not." Anne Nelson, author of "Rock-a-Bye Nino: Confessions of a White Mother with a Brown Caregiver...
...Sulzberger moved to New York City and had to prove once again he was more than the boss's son. Columnist Anna Quindlen says, "From the moment he walked in the door, there were people desperately trying to dislike him. It proved to be impossible." He did everything but deliver the paper -- and as night production manager, he came close to doing that. He covered city hall, then became an assignment editor, "the single most exhausting job I ever had." This was when he learned the importance of walking around, often without his shoes on, practicing his theory that participatory...
Sulzberger sent another signal of his openness just after the paper ran a now notorious piece describing the wild streak of the alleged victim in the Palm Beach rape case. Many reporters, Quindlen says, thought she was nuts to write a column saying that the article was beneath the Times's standards. But, she recalls, "the next time I saw Arthur in the newsroom, he came up to me and, in a loud voice, told me that he was proud that I had spoken...
...sexual history. To many, that seemed to offer no more than a dismal kind of justice. Complained one Times reporter: "It's two wrongs trying to make a right." Another asked, "Do we now run a piece about Willie Smith's father's sex life?" Popular Times columnist Anna Quindlen wrote in the newspaper the following Sunday that the daily's decision to publish the alleged victim's name was "beneath its traditions...