Sam Zell: Master of the Obvious

• To "Give It A Rest": Your little rag is out of the Top 30 Web sites -- AGAIN. Where's all the chest-thunping NOW? http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003697154

• Just love how Zell never mentions the sun-sentinel. Maybe someone should tell him he owns it... or not.

• Speaking of the Sun-Sentinel... In Wednesday's Sentinel OP-Ed page, Steve Goldstein wet himself over former Nova Pres. Abe Fischler....hailing him as one the nation's great classroom visonaries. However... What the Sentinel (or Goldstein) failed to tell readers was that Steverino was a long time employee of Fischler's as a well-paid funding raiser for Nova. Ah well. If nothing else, Goldstein showed us his nose is still way up his ex-boss's ass.

• http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/15/opinion/edjacoby.php "In an extensively researched cover story last week, National Journal took a close look under the hood of the Lancet/Johns Hopkins study. Reporters Neil Munro and Carl Cannon found that it was marred by grave flaws, such as unsupervised Iraqi survey teams, and survey samples that were too small to be statistically valid." "The single disk they finally, grudgingly, supplied contained suspicious evidence of "data-heaping" - that is, fabricated numbers. Researchers failed to gather basic demographic data from those they interviewed, a key safeguard against fraud. "They failed to do any of the [routine] things to prevent fabrication," Fritz Scheuren, vice president for statistics at the National Opinion Research Center, told the reporters." i.e. Your claim that over 600,000 Iraqis died in the war so far is total and complete bullshit Bob. Well done.

• This coming from the guy who overpaid when he bought the joint ... Whatever.

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