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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (18661)	5/10/2000 8:50:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I knew it wasn't the New Yorker, but I did some research to jog my memory. There was a fracas associated with the New Yorker several years ago, at a symposium to launch a special issue to which he had contributed, when he referred to Farrakhan disparagingly (I believe he called him a head- case, or something like it), and got into a shouting match with Cornel West, from Harvard. However, the incident you asked about involved getting into a fight with a colleague at the Village Voice. This is from a profile in Salon: It's true that Crouch's blustery style and pugilistic spirit can sometimes get a little out of control. In another bit of Crouchian legend, he got fired after throwing down some street fighter justice on a Village Voice colleague who disagreed with his dislike of gangsta rap music -- a brief but intense dust-up that led to the police being called and Crouch getting the ax. Crouch later described this as the best thing that could have happened to him, careerwise: "I want them to know that just because I write, doesn't mean I can't also fight," he said. I don't know who started it, my guess is that the colleague pushed him, or harangued him in his face, and he threw the first punch, which is why he got blamed.........