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The Boston Globe has published a hard-hitting four part series on Harvard University.
“The Brundtland report celebrated by many at Globe '90, while hard-hitting in its analysis of the global environmental crisis, is profoundly shallow in its prescriptions.”
Incidentally, that CNNfn guy maintained the station's usual hard-hitting standards by concluding their conversation this way: "On a personal note, I'd like to say that for the last four Thanksgivings we've done your balsamic glazed onions, and they were fantastic."
I did see Monica on Larry King , and the show left me with one burning question that hard-hitting Larry failed to ask: If you're a borderline nobody who's been given an hour of nationwide airtime with the King of Talk, what in hell is so important that you have to leave 20 minutes early?
American Media's chief executive, David Pecker, seems to hew to the latter interpretation, because he told the Times that Altman has done nothing to interfere with the "hard-hitting" stuff in the Enquirer and the Star about the Clintons.