Rather will be gone before October.
I wish I was as optimistic, but the only way he'll be gone by then is if he accepts an official position with the DemonRATic campaign (IMHO, there's a better chance that the Kerry/Edwards ticket won't be intact come October).
Bill Glennon, a technology consultant in New York who worked for I.B.M. in Midtown Manhattan for 14 years and repaired typewriters throughout that time, said that the Executive had proportional spacing and that its typebar could be fitted with superscript characters.
Remember when the Boston Globe suspended Jeff Jacoby for four months in 2000 over a column about the signers of the Declaration of Independence? The Globe said he plagiarized a column that was floating around the internet; Jacoby said that the Globe wanted to silence him during the 2000 election.
Is this incident with Rather any different? Shouldn't CBS, at the very least, suspend Dan Rather until after the election? And then, while he's on suspension, they can float rumors about him not coming back.
-PJ