Props to Helene Cooper and the NYT for doing a good job with the Ahmadinejad story. Much better writing than the Times might have produced a few years ago, frankly, and even a smidge of dreaded authorial voice. I like how she managed to make fun of both the Iranian president

He said that there were no homosexuals in Iran — not one —

and Columbia President Lee Bollinger:

Mr. Bollinger praised himself and Columbia for showing they believed in freedom of speech by inviting the Iranian president

That “not one” is a slap a lot of newspapers wouldn’t have taken, and the phrasing of “Mr. Bollinger praised himself” is both subtler and more pointed than it could have been.

26 September 2007

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