Word: siegal
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...week by eating only cabbage soup. A more challenging competitor might be the lemonade diet, which requires dieters to subsist on a concoction of lemon juice, maple syrup, red pepper and hot water for as long as 10 days. While it may not rely on sound science, Siegal's cookie diet looks that much more appealing by comparison...
...much-hated editor who supervised the newspaper's standards of word choice, and who personifies the tyrannical, pretentious side of the Times. (The inside joke here is that the victim, Theodore Ratnoff, is portrayed as a tall and handsome strapping blond, while the real editor of standards, Allan Siegal, was short and heroically rotund.) His body is discovered with a telling item stuck into his chest: a newspaper spike, the symbol of days gone by, when an editor rejecting copy would spike it on a metal spire atop one's desk. The smart-alecky reporter assigned to cover the crime...
...Siegal said that he became interested in the topic after President George W. Bush denounced The Times in June for disclosing information about the government’s policy of monitoring the currency transactions of suspected terrorists...
...felt that both conventional wisdom and the opinion of news media audiences was probably unaware of how often in the past newspapers have made decisions to withhold entire articles or subjects or parts of them,” Siegal said last week...
...Obviously the point of being at Harvard is to be around students,” Siegal said...