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...generating such positive buzz with its green initiative while Exxon generally looks like sludge? Look to the top. Lee Raymond, Exxon's chairman and CEO, is a verbal gusher of anti-global-warming rhetoric who opposes mandatory caps on greenhouse-gas emissions. Environmentalists accuse Exxon of being the "No. 1 climate criminal," responsible for the Bush Administration's refusal to sign on to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which sets targets for reducing pollution that causes global warming. "We do think there is a risk of climate change, but there are much better approaches to making progress than mandatory caps," says...
DIED. SHANA ALEXANDER, 79, witty, trailblazing journalist and author; of cancer; in Hermosa Beach, Calif. The first female staff writer at LIFE, she became a household name for her verbal sparring with conservative James Kilpatrick on Point/Counterpoint, a segment on TV's 60 Minutes in the 1970s that was often parodied by Saturday Night Live's Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd...
...DIED. SHANA ALEXANDER, 79, witty, trailblazing journalist and author; in Hermosa Beach, California. The first female staff writer at Life, Alexander, a liberal, became a household name for her verbal sparring with conservative James Kilpatrick on Point-Counterpoint, a segment on TV's 60 Minutes in the 1970s that was often parodied on Saturday Night Live, with Dan Aykroyd's snarly retort to Jane Curtin, "Jane, you ignorant slut...
...Sitegeist When it comes to venomous invective, North Korea's propaganda machine is unsurpassed. Check out its verbal missiles at NK News (www.nk-news.net), a database of past articles from the Korea Central News Agency (KCNA). The site boasts "over 50 megabytes of hard-core Stalinist propaganda," plus the KCNA Random Insult Generator. Hit a button labeled INSULT ME AGAIN and it unleashes vitriolic phrases like "You extra-large aggressor!" and "You swollen-headed warmonger...