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(Incidentally, Chatterbox should confess here that in an earlier item, he said Ellis told Diaz that "some of the scientists" Diaz cited had economic ties to Metabolife competitors; on closer inspection of the raw transcript, Chatterbox now realizes that Ellis made that accusation only about Heymsfield . Metabolife's repetition of the reference to Heymsfield's Slim-Fast link, in notes interspersed throughout the manuscript, tricked Chatterbox into thinking, mistakenly, that there was more than one Metabolife critic who was receiving payment from a Metabolife rival.)
The Vanity Fair story, by rival investigative reporter Robert Sam Anson, flayed Hersh as a greedy journalistic thug who blackmails sources.
The media's feel-good story lines focused on 1) the underestimated horse, who was offered for sale in February but had no takers; 2) trainer Wayne Lukas, who got the victory despite the fact that rival trainer Bob Baffert had three favored horses in the race and had won the last two Derbys; and 3) jockey Chris Antley, who had been thinking of quitting the sport after a bout with drug abuse in the late '80s and a weight problem last year.
They weren't trying to restrict a rival gang, enforce a political ideal, or overthrow authority.
3) Now AT&T will have to buy Bell Atlantic--which has already bought Nynex--to form a rival phone giant.