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If Miss Run Amok is not the hero that she claims to be, then she will instead become a rumor, whispered about for a time and then forgotten, a stone dropped along the edge of some beach, a footnote.
Miss Run Amok is what we are left with, and we are sorely disappointed.
In The Washington Post today, Howard Kurtz reports that former New York Times national security correspondent Judith Miller (who once famously referred to herself as "Miss Run Amok") is joining Fox News as an on-air analyst and writer for the cable news channel's Web site.
These days Ms. Run Amok is taking victory laps about the banquet and awards circuit picking up medals for her selfless dedication to the highest ideals of her calling.
"Amok is the research guide to all the sordid thoughts you'd never discuss at lunch ... the index of all that we hold obscure, perverse, and dear."
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