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Keller in the Cellar? 
By Mickey Kaus
Updated Monday, May 12, 2003, at 2:43 AM PT

... Bill Keller (runner-up to Raines for the executive editor's job) is looking better and better, isn't he? He's sitting there on the bench, presumably ready to play. Maybe the fourth quarter belongs to him! ...

6:15 P.M.

kf Scoop:WaPo "Reliable Source" columnist Lloyd Grove is in fact going--not thinking of going, as reported earlier, or negotiating about going, but going-- to the New York Daily News. ... Did he buy his "Mort Insurance"? ... P.S.: The Post is foolish to let him leave. ... Hell, Howell Raines would have made him a "star!" ... 3:10 P.M.

Euphemism of the Week:

"Obviously there are sort of some message challenges, but they are normal.'' -- Sen. John Kerry.

Did Ed Muskie use that phrase back in '72? It might be Kerry's innovation ... 11:23 P.M

In dictionaries of the future, when you look up the word "groveling," you'll see this NYT "corrective article."   ... P.S.: There's some sort of backstory here we're not being told about. ... 10:44 P.M.

Maybe The Note has made this point, but ... What was unusual about the July 4th holiday? No big terror alert. People went about their business. That's good news, but it's also good news specifically for Democrats, who can hold out some hope that the voters' focus will shift away from foreign affairs and terrorism. ... The government's effort to prevent more domestic attacks is one area where ambitious Democrats would seem to be wishing for success, not failure. ... 11:45 A.M.

Saturday, July 12, 2003 

Bill Keller will stop this nonsense! Won't he?  I've no reason to doubt the basic message of Louis Uchitelle's front page NYT gloom-'n-doomer--that blacks made great strides in the tight labor market of the late '90s and are losing some of that ground in the current slowdown. But the chart accompanying the story (available as a pop-up from the Web page) is, yes, a textbook example of misleading graphics! It is designed to show that