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Boxing officials ordered a rematch of the March 13 heavyweight championship fight between Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis . Fans and sports writers are in an uproar because the judges called the fight a draw--despite a huge disparity of punches in Lewis' favor and the widespread perception of spectators that Lewis won.
This created a predictable (and justified) uproar at the paper, which caused the publisher, Kathryn Downing, to apologize and mumble some nonsense about how she was unfamiliar with newspaper etiquette, which encouraged reporters and editors at the paper to push editor Michael Parks to assign a story about the whole fiasco, which he eventually did (to David Shaw, the paper's Pulitzer-winning media critic).
(For more on the uproar, see Jack Shafer's "Glass Houses."
Glenn Close plays Camille Orcutt, Cookie's histrionic niece and the director of the church theatricals (currently Oscar Wilde's Salome ), whose hysterical obsession with hiding the "disgraceful" truth throws the town into an uproar.
, and threw her life into an uproar.