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Probably so, but Freeh had as much motive as anyone to do the leaking: publicizing the dispute served to demonstrate his political independence from Clinton, something Reno has been pilloried repeatedly for not demonstrating (see, for instance, today's Maureen Dowd column).
Harper's magazine in 1955 rebuked a government official for using re-think , and another publication pilloried the monstrous verb unfreeze in 1933.
The Taurus is even sub-Saab---the Saab 900, pilloried in Chatterbox for 3/13, has improved somewhat.
Edgar Jr. is pilloried for dragging a liquor company into the film industry, but Edgar Sr. did it first.
For example, critics pilloried ultimate fighting because competitors fought with bare knuckles: To a nation accustomed to boxing gloves, this seemed revolting, an invitation to brain damage.