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Dissenting, the Wall Street Journal 's Donald Lyons complains that Leguizamo's rants about Latino stereotypes make him "a self-important bore."
Times ' tradition of running stories at approximately five times their logical length might suspect that publication of David Shaw's opus, "Crossing the Line," was a deliberate scheme to hide news of its publisher's and editor's misbehavior by burying it inside a self-important and interminable narrative that almost no one would have the patience to read.
The etiquette expert doesn't want to be mistaken for a Tory stick-in-the-mud--she's all-American, she's egalitarian, she's up-to-date--but she's become a self-important, name-dropping crusader in the civility wars herself.
And "TRB" ridicules secretary of state candidates Richard Holbrooke and George Mitchell as "archetypes of the Washington Male"--self-important, humorless, and not as smart as they think.
"Actually, self-important pomposity is out right now.