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Once commander of the Caniçal whaling station and thus responsible for taking 100–200 of the great c reatures each year, he now devotes his energy to saving the whale and other marine life of the area.
While the other two papers report on the killing, the Times devotes a large chunk of its story to fretting over whether Richard Holbrooke will be involved in the monitoring effort.
Gere is Ike Graham, a New York-based USA Today columnist, who hears about Maggie in a bar and, without even a call to confirm his facts ( check ), devotes his next piece to an un-PC screed on the inconstancy of all women ( check ) with this "runaway bride" as Exhibit A. The column makes him instantly ( check ) unpopular with all those Manhattan USA Today readers ( check ) who recognize him on the street ( check ), not to mention the hordes of small-town USA Today readers who wait for the paper's delivery truck as if it were the Good Humor man ( check ). After the subject of the column responds with a letter composed on a manual typewriter ( check ) disputing its facts, his editor and ex-wife ( check ) (Rita Wilson) promptly ( check ) fires him ( check ).
. And the LAT inexplicably devotes its entire third paragraph to an airy statement from the text of this morning's speech by Clinton--a statement that does nothing to help explain the proposal.
The WP devotes its front-page quake coverage to the story of 40-year-old Yuksel Er, who was pulled from the wreckage of his apartment building south of Istanbul Saturday after spending 97 hours trapped beneath rubble.