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Much of this evidence would melt away in the days to come. The family and the office typist of Lieut. Colonel Jerry Killian, the alleged author of the memos, as well as additional document experts, would say they did not look real. There would be calls for Rather's resignation. The Wall Street Journal would declare that the "liberal media establishment" had finally lost its hold on the national agenda. But behind the hysteria, this is a story about human errors whipped into a new-media news cycle. It is also a familiar tale of journalists wanting ever so badly...
After the story began to unravel, CBS--and Rather in particular--spent a week aggressively defending it. Then Rather broadcast an interview with Marian Carr Knox, Killian's typist, who had by that point told several news outlets that she didn't think the memos were real. But Rather emphasized that Knox felt the memos nonetheless reflected Killian's opinion at the time. "Those who have criticized aspects of our story have never criticized the heart of it ... that George Bush received preferential treatment to get into the National Guard and, once accepted, failed to satisfy the requirements...
...track of what her kids should be doing for homework without having to peer obnoxiously over their shoulders. More important, one of her children, who's now in sixth grade, is severely dyslexic. It takes him an hour to write a paragraph by hand--but he's a demon typist. "It was as if he was playing on a level field for the first time," she says, and her relief is heartfelt. "For him, having that laptop was like being given wings...
...right? Are my mom and millions of other Graffiti users doomed to eventual extinction, their language as dead as Latin? To find out, I put the Clie and both versions of the Treo to the test. I'm a fairly fast typist and a two-year Graffiti artist, so either system could work for me. But I needed answers. Which method was faster? Which led to fewer mistakes? And which felt more comfortable...
...Here are Some Fun Al Gore E-Mailing Facts: The veep types his own e-mail, and is a touch-typist. ("Remember, he's a former reporter," one staffer reminds me, which in fact did nothing to reassure me at the time. I've been in newsrooms. I've seen journalists both hunting and pecking.) He "banged it out" sitting atop the Mark Twain riverboat on a gray and sultry Monday afternoon after a morning in which he was up before dawn to appear on seemingly every network morning show. He followed that with a lengthy chat with the reporters...