On 7/21/06, Dan Scanlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's maybe one of those spoofs that comes closer to describing her
role in our culture than "mainstream" media can.
Dunno.
it sounds a bit like a Coulter-like person sent it, but so far she's
only guilty of being a horrible person.
July 14, 2006/New York TIMES
Powder Sent to The Times Not Anthrax
By AL BAKER
Police and environmental workers responded to The New York Times
offices today after an employee in the postal services department
opened a letter addressed to the newspaper and saw a powdery substance
he believed to be suspicious, the police said.
The incident unfolded at about 12:35 p.m. on the eighth floor of the
newspaper's West 43rd Street offices as the mailroom worker opened the
white, business-sized envelope with no return address and saw what he
later described as a white powder, the police said.
The letter had a postmark from Philadelphia, the police said, and
contained an editorial published by The New York Times on June 28
titled "Patriotism and the Press," with a red "X" written across it,
said Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's chief spokesman. Mr.
Browne said the substance had yet to be identified but that it was
later deemed to be beige in color, not white.
Shortly before 5 p.m. an announcement was made over the Times public
address system saying that the powder had been found to be
"nonthreatening and nonhazardous." According to field tests conducted
by the Department of Environmental Protection, the substance was
preliminarily identified as corn starch, though further analysis will
be done at the city Health Department's laboratory, as the protocol
requires. ...
Separately, someone had called the police earlier in the day to report
concerns about a white substance found in a letter delivered to an
address in the midtown Manhattan area, Mr. Browne said. But that
substance turned out to be cocaine, he said.
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Jim Devine / "You need a busload of faith to get by." -- Lou Reed.
