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...Digital followed a day later with full-page ads in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and San Jose Mercury News. Wall Street took the bait, wrist slapping Intel's soaring stock down $6 and backslapping Digital up $2 in the belief that the microchip David wouldn't rile Goliath unless it had a really, really good case...
...investigated them prior to even hiring them, and had them put [a promise of fair labor practices] in writing to us this past year, since there was such a rile being raised by the unions," Zewinski said...
Never underestimate the power of sex to rile even such a relatively unflappable body as the Episcopal Church. The influential 2.5 million-member denomination has tolerated more progressive behavior than most Protestant groups; some liberal dioceses have held same-sex marriages and ordained gay clergy. Yet official church doctrine has always opposed such practices. Now a hot debate is erupting over a proposed "pastoral teaching" that would give liberationists more leeway than ever before...
Rollins and his staff have been studiously denying all of his initial comments. Denial presents a daunting task, when three top campaign people make the same "mistake." Rollins has explained his comments as lies intended to rile James Carville, the campaign manager of former governor and Whitman opponent Jim Florio. (You might recall Carville as the guy who engineered the defeat of Perot and one notable Republican a year ago.) Is Ed Rollins, pundit par excellence, really stupid and immature enough to say things that could get him arrested just to dig at Jim Carville? Luckily, the Democratic State Committee...
Marchers in Washington try to nudge, not rile the President...