Targeting Goodwin is a flight of fancy

'Politics ain't beanbag" was the fictional Mr. Dooley's cryptic aphorism, meaning that politics is rarely played by Marquis of Queensberry rules. And labor politics can be especially sharp-elbowed; witness a campaign being launched by the striking Northwest Airlines mechanics' union to harass and discredit the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Northwest board member Doris Kearns Goodwin. (Full article: 687 words)

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