As readers of MPS well know, Maureen Dowd is a favourite here. She writes for the NY Times. So it's more than accolades to her that a columnist on CBS MarketWatch pays tribute to Dowd:
"Reading Maureen Dowd's recent columns in the New York Times, I almost felt a little sorry for Paul Wolfowitz, the head of the World Bank. Almost.
Like a lot of people, I was irked that Wolfowitz, who had previously advised the White House on Iraq, allegedly pulled strings to assist his girlfriend, Shaha Ali Riza.
Once Dowd set her sights on Wolfowitz, he looked like a Dead Bureaucrat Walking.
I could envision Dowd grinning devilishly as she wrote in "Cupid and Cupidity" on April 18: "Who could focus on a weak yen when you had a weak Wolfie with a strong yen for Shaha?"
In the April 14 piece, "More Con Than Neo," Dowd wrote more pointedly: "You will not be surprised to learn, gentle readers, that Wolfie in love is no less deceptive and bumbling than Wolfie at war. Proving he is more con than neo, he confessed that he had not been candid with his staff at the World Bank. While he was acting holier than thou, demanding incorruptibility from poor countries desperate for loans, he was enriching his girlfriend with tax-free ducats."
"Reading Maureen Dowd's recent columns in the New York Times, I almost felt a little sorry for Paul Wolfowitz, the head of the World Bank. Almost.
Like a lot of people, I was irked that Wolfowitz, who had previously advised the White House on Iraq, allegedly pulled strings to assist his girlfriend, Shaha Ali Riza.
Once Dowd set her sights on Wolfowitz, he looked like a Dead Bureaucrat Walking.
I could envision Dowd grinning devilishly as she wrote in "Cupid and Cupidity" on April 18: "Who could focus on a weak yen when you had a weak Wolfie with a strong yen for Shaha?"
In the April 14 piece, "More Con Than Neo," Dowd wrote more pointedly: "You will not be surprised to learn, gentle readers, that Wolfie in love is no less deceptive and bumbling than Wolfie at war. Proving he is more con than neo, he confessed that he had not been candid with his staff at the World Bank. While he was acting holier than thou, demanding incorruptibility from poor countries desperate for loans, he was enriching his girlfriend with tax-free ducats."
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