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February 19, 2003
RETURN OF THE SPACE ALIEN FROM PLANET BRYAN
Dick Gephardt announced his candidacy for President today.
The sidebar picture accompanying the Times article (by Kenneth Dickerman) must be one of the most unflattering pictures of a Presidential candidate ever published.
It is reminiscent of Henrik Hertzberg's classic 1988 comment in The New Republic that Gephardt, in his initial candidacy, resembled "someone whose body has been taken over by space aliens...from the planet Bryan."
See for yourselves:

UPDATE: The article on the Times' website now shows a somewhat more flattering picture. (I didn't get a chance to see which picture made the print version.) Perhaps the Gephardt people complained. I certainly would have.
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