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Both in person and in the pages he produced each week, Newsweek editor MAYNARD PARKER had an edgy energy that was rooted in a passion for the news. Often tightly coiled and always ready to spring, he had the gleeful ability to rip up his magazine as it was going to press in order to make it more exciting. Every Monday I felt the special kinship that comes from having tried to pull off the same feats; I could admire the smart way he had packaged a cover, spotted a trend or elicited a nugget of reporting...
Poor Mike McCurry. The former Clinton press secretary was forced for 10 months to zip his lips on how he felt about Zippergate; on Monday, he finally let rip. His old boss was "exasperatingly stupid" in his personal life, McCurry told an audience of 200 at the University of Pittsburgh in his first public comments since leaving the White House. And although the President is "an enormously gifted and richly qualified leader for the nation," there will "always be an asterisk next to his name in the record books" because of the Lewinsky scandal...
Benjamin V.A. Pettigrew '99, a student member of the Board of Directors, said he believed the rebate will lead to increased membership now that studentsknow that "the Coop is not there to rip studentsoff, but there to serve its members." He also saidthe Coop has an unfair reputation...
...What a rip-off! For all the money Starr has been billing the country, he could have included pictures. ED LINDNER Westport, Conn...
...Afghan border, he prohibited driving on the left side of the road because the left hand is deemed unclean. Numerous car crashes failed to deter him. Inspired by the Taliban's medieval puritanism, mullahs in northwest Pakistan are destroying TVs and setting up roadblocks to stop cars and rip out music cassettes...