Word: taylors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...June 22 segment in which Barnicle held up the book and said it had "a yuk on every page," the paper asked for his resignation; he refused. At week's end, word was the Globe was about to fire him. Last Friday, Barnicle met with publisher Ben Taylor; it was not a happy session. Afterward, Barnicle said, "walking to my car, I was reduced to tears...
...fired after all. Declaring that "the punishment did not fit the crime," editor Matthew Storin has withdrawn his demand for Barnicle's resignation, and replaced it with this two-month wrist-slap. Curiously, Storin's change of heart came after he met with Globe publisher Benjamin B. Taylor...
...popular Globe columnist who was fired last month for a similar, if more serious charge of fabricating characters. Smith is a black woman; Barnicle a white male. Inevitably, the disparity of punishment will leave the Globe open to charges of racism. That was one of the reasons Storin and Taylor dithered for so long, which in turn caused the rival Boston Herald great glee: "What a bunch of idiots," they quoted one Globe staffer saying about his management's indecision...
...Taylor has used his contacts in political andlaw enforcement circles in Mass. to circumventbeing held accountable for illegal acts," thereport says...
Monahan's report says that federal lawenforcement officials had failed to prosecuteTaylor, that one official had tipped Taylor offabout his investigation and that Taylor's licenseas a private investigator should be reviewed...