A friend showed me the article, “Backstabbers,” in your April 13, 2001, edition. Ordinarily I just ignore such stories. However, the part in this one referring to me just isn’t true, and it doesn’t make sense. Therefore, my response:
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(Parenthetically, the writer’s aside that I “didn’t return phone calls for this story,” is a typical half-truth. The fact is that one phone call was left on my answering machine, saying only that Paul Newey told the caller some (unexplained) story and said that I could verify it. A name and telephone number was left for me to call the next day. But, having learned from newspaper writers not to trust newspaper writers, I did not return the call.)
I never knew Ben Adamowski personally, but consider him a cut above most of his contemporaries.
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