New York Observer
Gail Collins recalls just one other similar get-together -- about eight years ago, when
Howell Raines was running the editorial page. At the latest dinner, Collins was seated between
Frank Rich and
Tom Friedman. "People would pay $10 billion to sit between Frank and Tom," she says.
William Safire notes the dinner "didn't have any type of political overtone. The point that it made is that opinion writers who strongly disagree can still be friends."
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