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Iranian authorities confiscated copies of Zan after it printed a cartoon showing a thug being asked to kill a woman rather than a man because under Islamic law a woman's "blood money" is half that of a man's.
But this small victory for Hillary came at a cost of some embarrassment to Cuomo, who now looks a little like a partisan thug (and a disloyal thug at that, since Giuliani risked his career to endorse Andrew's father Mario in the 1994 New York governor's race.)
The Vanity Fair story, by rival investigative reporter Robert Sam Anson, flayed Hersh as a greedy journalistic thug who blackmails sources.
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USAT , the LAT , and the NYT all go front page with the news that choke-out thug Latrell Sprewell was given his gazillion dollar contract back by an arbitrator.