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Here was a man who'd devoted his life to making crooked things straight . Was Simpson taking something straight --the uprightness of Dr. Nathan Seltzer--and making it crooked ? The more he thought about it, the more it seemed to Chatterbox that Dr. Seltzer, no less than Lisa Brennan-Jobs, had a right to tell his side of the story.
A front-page WP piece reminds us that it's unfair to depict everybody in Congress as crooked clowns.
Every child learned the right way to spell Mississippi: M, i, crooked letter, crooked letter, i, crooked letter, crooked letter, i, humpback, humpback, i .
[From a review by George Stade of Christopher Lehmann-Haupt's A Crooked Man, in The New York Times, 21 February 1995.]
The NYT reports that a surprising witness appeared before a NYC City Council hearing on police reform: former NYPD whistleblowing cop Frank Serpico, who called for an independent police monitoring board to investigate police wrongdoing and "create an atmosphere where the crooked cop fears the honest cop, and not the other way around."