For the second time in three weeks, Helene Cooper plumps for Bolton's harshest Republican critic as a possible replacement for Bolton as United Nations ambassador.
Editor Kate Phillips: "And with the controversy over Senator John Kerry's 'botched joke' presumably (please) leaving the airwaves and the front pages after today...."
But some Times critics find Barney Calame's mea culpa lame: "While it's a close call now, as it was then, I don't think the article should have been published."
The liberal senator from Massachusetts criticizes the Times for failing to live up to its sterling reputation - in his eyes, anyway - in its dealing with The Boston Globe. The Times itself fails ...