Perhaps the jokes and remarks the article's title refers to are victims of stringent sexual harassment policies, but the argument that such social faux pas are worth preserving over providing people with a safe work environment is oversimplified and absurd.
"When Mr. Granger remarked that the article 'read like a movie,' I said we should promote it like the action movie of the winter, so let's do a trailer," Mr. Griffin said.
In fact, that's how all but a tiny number of people must have read the passage, because no one else who remarked on the article — not the hundreds of commenters on the site nor the dozens of people who wrote to me personally — seemed to find that line at all notable.
Writing of the firm's work in a 1957 article, Richard Roth remarked "The entire endeavor in our office is to create the best that can be produced within the restrictions that are placed upon us; and these restrictions are seldom those of our client, but rather of lending institutions; economics; and municipal authorities' laws" ( Progressive Architecture, June 1957).
Remarking on the article, which reported that the Bush administration had refused an Israeli request for bunker-buster bombs to use against Iran but was working on covert efforts to foil the nuclear program, TheTrueHOOHA suggested that the report would harm a very expensive program.
Still, debating the point on the Slashdot website, Sanger remarked: "If the articles that CZ has worked on are better than the corresponding WP articles (and that's the hope), then the CZ will at least be better than WP to that extent.
Neither Mr. Pence nor Mr. McCain was available Monday to comment on the Iraqis' remarks in the article.
The timing of those remarks and the article were not coincidental.
Karl does not deny the remarks in the article, but he does not want his comments to be misconstrued as reverse discrimination.
She has not yet commented on her quoted remarks in the article, written by Nadira Naipaul, the wife of the writer V. S. Naipaul.
