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- PEOPLE, Page 73Punch Line
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- By EMILY MITCHELL/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- Take a ringside seat as Jimmy Breslin comes out punching.
- Round 1: the New York Newsday writer mouths off about a
- Korean-American co-worker who objected to "sexism" in one of
- his columns. He describes the woman obscenely, and calls her
- "slant-eyed" and a "yellow cur." Asian-American journalists
- demand his ouster. Round 2: Breslin apologizes ("I am no good
- and once again I can prove it"). But he leads with the lip
- again, joking on a radio talk show about his outburst. Round 3:
- his exasperated editors sock him with a two-week suspension for
- "lack of sensitivity." The last thing anybody wanted last week
- was a rematch.
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