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...emphasis on off-color newsroom humor. The move caused an uproar: "The Post nearly backed out of the project then, and [Executive Editor Benjamin C.] Bradlee was blunt with Redford. 'Just remember, pal,' he said, 'that you go off and ride a horse or jump in the sack with some good-looking woman in your next film--but I am forever an asshole.' Redford was impressed: 'I've met few people who were as conscious of their position--and how to keep it.'" --March...
...Homer. The Spanish-American war had William Randolph Hearst. Every calamity has its bard, and downsizing's is Scott Adams. True, Patrick Buchanan deserves some credit for recognizing exactly what it means to employees to be expendable gaskets in America's re-engineering. But Adams, the creator of a sack-shaped, ever threatened corporate loser named Dilbert, was there first. The result is that Dilbert, which already runs in more than 800 newspapers with a readership of some 60 million people, is still the fastest-growing comic strip in the country...
...speculate on what became of Oliver Schmidt's research. Perhaps one of the skate rats wandered across the street from the pit by the T station and discovered the unlocked bike. Maybe the composition books full of notes on German-American relations provided a brief diversion from the hackey-sack games favored by the tattooed, purple-haired, unwashed denizens...
...third quarter,] we were keeping the team alive," said Harvard captain Justin Frantz, who led the team with 17 tackles and a sack...
...confident Creator. The New Testament enlarges him. Like most religious scholars, Pagels believes the Gospels were set down in the latter half of the first century, after the defeat of the Jewish rebellion against Rome. "Wartime literature," she calls them, reflecting the divisions among Jews traumatized by the sack of Jerusalem and the destruction of their temple...