Word: rauching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...March, his first wife Sheila Rauch Kennedy accused him of verbal abuse when pressuring her for an annulment of their marriage...
...great surprise to see AOL chairman Steve Case on your cover [BUSINESS, Sept. 22]. But he is newsworthy not so much as a champion of a burgeoning industry but rather as a man with more dissatisfied customers than anyone else on the planet. RICK RAUCH Boulder, Colo...
...Labor Secretary, Robert Reich couldn't get a buzz going if he'd crossed a picket line. Now he's the talk of the town for his bestselling memoir, Locked in the Cabinet. But the talk has turned decidedly sour since one reviewer, Jonathan Rauch, saw through the forest of short-guy jokes to find a book that was too good to be true. Writing in Slate magazine, Rauch found that Reich had cooked the raw material of Washington life into an unrecognizable stew of half-truths in which he comes off as morally superior...
...attacked by cigar-puffing capitalists at a lunch speech: "There isn't a lady in the room. All men...ready for the kill." They hiss and shout, "'Wrong!' 'Bull____!' 'Go back to Harvard."' Great stuff, but it never happened, according to tapes and transcripts dug up by Rauch. Saxton was less Savonarola than Mister Rogers; the hearing was dull, even for C-SPAN. The lunch was breakfast, the room nonsmoking and nonhissing, and a third of the audience was women. Reich responds that transcripts couldn't reflect the hostility he felt. Who does he think he is--the President...
Reich didn't respond to my calls about this. In his June 7 reply in Slate, he makes light of the discrepancies and Reiches Rauch. "My phone rings. 'Hello. Is this Robert Reich?'" he writes of a call from a "reporter in heat" who later snaps, "Where I come from, there are such things as journalistic ethics." A colleague of Rauch's who was within earshot swears there was no snapping and not a word about ethics. And Reich was returning Rauch's call, so no phone rang...