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It no doubt will smooth the ruffled feathers of many a person who's been mistaken for someone else--even a generic someone else.
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.
The world powers gave France this out after it ruffled feathers with its South Pacific nuclear tests earlier in the decade.
(One might add in passing that the twentieth-century, establishmentarian feathers ruffled by D. H. Lawrence with Lady Chatterley's Lover were less the result of Mellors' seducing a member of the aristocracy than his not addressing her properly.)
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.