With its writers and editors attacking each
other within the same pages, the New York
Times at this point looks like an unsupervised college
newspaper. What I had hoped was an autobiograpical
column,
"A Woman of Mass Destruction,"Â turned out to be another
explosion of envy from Maureen Dowd. The sexism in the
column -- Dowd charges Judith Miller with a "tropism toward
powerful men" and this from Howell Raines' favorite employeeÂ
-- is very disappointing. If only Judith Miller had
protected a liberal source -- and cut corners on behalf of aÂ
story that would give the left a triumphant storyline -- she too
could share column space with Dowd.