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Ruffled Feathers
One of the judges on that court is Alex Kozinski, who has also participated in Slate 's "Breakfast Table ." But the jurist should not be confused with Alex Kuczynski , the New York Times media reporter, formerly of the New York Observer . She ruffled feathers most recently with her unflattering assessment of Tina Brown's Talk , charging the magazine with selling out to promote Miramax films.
According to an article published in November in the British magazine New Scientist , Tapio Eeva and his colleagues report that because pollutants from a copper smelter in the town of Harjavalta dull the plumage of local great tits, they are unable to perform a courtship dance that relies on the display of bright feathers.
Top revelations include that at one point, Gingrich was so stressed out that he went off his diet, and that at another, he successfully smoothed over ruffled Democratic feathers by sending over inscribed copies of his two books.
Pop songs are supposed to be universal--"I Will Always Love You"--but Merrill was specific with a vengeance: Even if you were minded to write a song about a gal who wears red feathers and a huley-huley skirt and lives on jes' cokeynuts, why would you open with the line "I work in a London bank"?