Leading columnist Ari Shavit summarised Dagan's point of view in the Ha'aretz newspaper: "Dagan is extremely concerned about September 2011.
Leading columnists like it.
In 1948 he became The Sun's lead sports columnist.
On Thursday, AOL suspended Mariotti, its lead sports columnist, the AOL spokeswoman Caroline Campbell said.
Mr. Podhoretz, the lead political columnist of The New York Post, will join Commentary next month in the interim role of editorial director.
Dan Shaughnessy, The Globe's lead sports columnist, has written critically about Henry since he became the principal owner of the Red Sox in 2002.
At many big-city papers, the lead sports columnist is the franchise player, the most widely read and sometimes the highest-paid writer.
"Leaders have to lead," the columnist Candar said, adding cuttingly, "Being the darling of the simple people is not enough during such turbulent times".
With the Liberals having a hard time attracting star names to run on their tickets this fall, Jeffrey Simpson, The Globe and Mail's lead political columnist, last week captured much of Canada's indifference about Mr. Chretien, calling him "an anti-visionary man," and "the status quo man of all status quo men".
He also is a daily panelist on ESPN's sports-debate show, "Around The Horn", seen Monday-Friday at 5 p.m. ET. Mariotti spent 17 years as a lead sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and has covered every major sporting event — national and worldwide – numerous times.
