Mr. Stallman said that the former Wall Street Journal reporter — who has "impeccable" credentials and has frequently written for The Times — proposed the Sept. 9 article to him and disclosed, in detail, her connections to the world of open-water and marathon swimming.
The setting of "Good-bye, My Love," and the mythical references also called to mind the poems of Jack Gilbert, who has frequently written about Orpheus.
"There was likely an attempt" to sabotage the North Korean program with software, said Albright, who has frequently written and testified on the country's nuclear ambitions.
Ms. Pollock has frequently written about Mr. Brant, and he has apparently been impressed.
There is nothing necessarily wrong with cooperating with the military, said David Rieff, who has frequently written on the moral complexities of human-rights assistance.
"When an F.D.A. panel suggests that patients with C.F.S. not donate blood, that's going to impact the way doctors think about it," said Mary Schweitzer, a former history professor at Villanova, who has frequently written about living with the illness.
Homes, who has frequently written in an aging man's voice, acknowledged that she may have an "old-man psyche" and recalled dressing up as Willy Loman for Halloween in fourth grade.
