Online booksellers, who had been swamped with purchase requests, said government officials ordered them not to sell the book, which had been scheduled to go on the market this week.] In an effort to defuse the controversy, Ms. Mu said she quit her columnist job in early November and voluntarily shut down her Web site.
"I always went to see for myself," she said of her columnist's style of showing up everywhere, if only to stare and take notes that energized some of the most acute word pictures imaginable from the benighted world of politics.
When Janine Gibson, the editor in chief of The Guardian's Web site in the United States, realized that one of her columnists had a scoop about secret National Security Agency surveillance — potentially one of the biggest leaks in American intelligence history — she presented it to The Guardian's top editor in London with classic British understatement.
She has quit her magazine columnist job and halted her blog, or online diary.
Miss Greenfield bore a striking physical resemblance to Queen Elizabeth II (first noted by her fellow columnist Mary McGrory) and was an imposing figure despite her diminutive size.
Her happily ever after involves finding a new, perhaps equally fulfilling, career; it involves forming a partnership with a man who intrigues her, who admires her for who she is and not what she represents to him (as her lefty columnist ex, Frank, did).
She's just getting her feet wet with twitter -- you might like to follow her! Speaker, columnist and author, 'RIPE: Rich, Rewarding Work After 50'.
Dowd publishes a column of inadvertent self-parody whose subject is Michelle Obama's arms, and whose sum total of reporting is a conversation in a Washington taxi with her fellow columnist David Brooks.
Upon her death, columnist Louis E. Martin said, "She gave out faith and hope as if they were pills and she some sort of doctor".
While many may be unaware of the details of Ms. Cohen's life — her years as a gossip columnist; her romance with Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato, which he famously announced at a 1995 news conference — "the general impression," Mr. Lei said, "was that the building was being renamed after Ron Perelman's ex-wife".
A full eight days after Sarah Vine began the Daily Mail's pummelling of Charlotte Proudman for tweeting about a sexist comment on LinkedIn (one issue dementedly devoted four pages to the row), her fellow-columnist Jan Moir could find nothing better to do in the longest item in her Friday column than treat Proudman to more verbal blows.
