Tidbits And Outrages

...He said, 1 am oof here to condemn this place and this mosque.'" THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THEY DID NOT COMPARE BUST SIZES A New York Times article about the first meeting of a woman and the daughter she gave up for adoption at birth 23 years ago stated that "the two women exchanged photographs and memories, compared bust sizes and changed each other's lives...

...R.J., THE MONSIGNOR OKAYED THE WHOLE LINE—HE ESPECIALLY LOVED THE BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD AND PONTIFF VIDEO GAME" In order to raise money during John Paul ll's recent trip to the United States, the Roman Catholic Church officially authorized the merchandising of Pope products...

...TAKING ON THE TOUGH ISSUES Washington D.C.'s City Paper reports that the head of that city's department of finance and revenue, Sharon Morrow, has issued instructions forbidding employees from wearing red high-heeled shoes to work, from using their feet to flush office toilets, from drinking coffee at their desks from cups without lids, and from including sentences in official correspondence to the effect that "If you desire any further information, please call me...

...42 The Washington Monthly/September 1993...

...TIDBITS& OUTRAGES PICKY, PICKY The New York Times recently ran the following correction: "An article on March 8 about the investigation of the bombing of the World Trade Center omitted a word in quoting Rabbi Avi Weiss, the national president of the Coalition for Jewish Concerns, at a demonstration outside the Al-Salaam mosque in Jersey City...

...THEY'RE GOING AFTER VIEWERS WHO DON'T KNOW ABOUT ARNOLD'S ACTING Columbia Pictures placed advertisements for the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie The Last Action Hero on the main fuselage, the booster rockets, and the payload of a NASA Conestoga rocket...

...Items bearing his likeness endorsed for sale at such outlets as Wal-Mart and Sears during the visit included T-shirts, posters, and fanny packs...