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  • Since Katha Pollitt is a feminist, and feminists don’t care about women in the Muslim world, it stands to reason that her new column on the fate of Iraqi women does not, in fact, exist.

    Matthew Yglesias » This Article Does Not Exist 2007

  • Halfway to the police station, a probation officer called Pollitt and told him he could go home: The GPS was wrong again.

    New Haven Advocate: News 2008

  • "I would say one of the most important changes that we will consider in our business model, in the new environment, is an unbundling of the services that we currently offer and price for," Byron Pollitt , Visa's finance chief, said in September.

    Banks Look to Replace Lost Debit-Card Fees Aparajita Saha-Bubna 2011

  • Bassist Tessa Pollitt stood stock still and watchful, while guitarist Viv Albertine prowled the stage like a tiger.

    Ari Up: a punk with the courage to confront Jon Savage 2010

  • But neither does she lecture or assault you, as so many American authors do, with cloying euphemisms like “aging” – a word that, as Katha Pollitt has noted, applies to all of us: “A 50-year-old is aging at the same rate as a baby or a tree or a bottle of wine, exactly one second per second.”

    2009 July « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" (1958)- Based on Tennessee Williams's play, this Oscar-nominated drama of familial conflict concerns alcoholic ex-jock Brick (Paul Newman), who refuses to curry favor with his father, Southern patriarch Big Daddy Pollitt (Burl Ives), for a large inheritance.

    John Farr: Elizabeth Taylor: Star John Farr 2011

  • What would the CBS censors make of that? from the article: Focus on the Fetus by Katha Pollitt

    Think Progress » Focus on the Family to air a second ad during Super Bowl pre-game. 2010

  • I agree with Katha Pollitt that I'm personally relieved we are not sitting in the raging floodwaters of woman-hating sewage that would fill all the airwaves if Hillary Clinton had won the Presidency.

    Kickin' Ass and Namin' Names 2010

  • Flooding of up to five feet in some areas, along with high winds and storms, could make emergency evacuation dangerous, said County Executive Richard Pollitt, Jr.

    East Braces for a Walloping Mike Esterl 2011

  • "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" (1958)- Based on Tennessee Williams's play, this Oscar-nominated drama of familial conflict concerns alcoholic ex-jock Brick (Paul Newman), who refuses to curry favor with his father, Southern patriarch Big Daddy Pollitt (Burl Ives), for a large inheritance.

    John Farr: Elizabeth Taylor: Star John Farr 2011

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