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Anita Gallagher spotted a marcher in yesterday's Labor Day parade holding a sign that told voters to give President Bush the "pink slip." She promptly pulled out a pink slip of her own to wave back as she stood on the Boulevard of the Allies watching Pittsburgh's annual parade Downtown. Gallagher, a McCandless resident and volunteer for Democratic candidate U.S. Sen. John Kerry, was one of many who turned out to see Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, march in the parade. The result was not only a three-hour queue of union members and marching bands but also, in large part,...

A week ago tonight, I asked Teresa Heinz Kerry a simple question here: "What did you mean?" And a wicked firestorm was sparked. Incredibly, most of it was directed against me. Moments earlier, Mrs. Heinz Kerry had talked of "un-Pennsylvanian and sometimes un-American traits" that supposedly have crept into our political discourse. Her talk before the Pennsylvania delegation was, in part, a plea for a return to civility. She was not specific. As any journalist would, or should, I sought an example. Instead, I got a finger in the face and was told to "shove it." I have been told...

And finally, yours truly is immortalized in caricature on the editorial page of Wednesday's Boston Globe by Dan Wasserman, whose work often appears in the Trib. "Shove it!" Teresa tells me, her husband standing behind her. "As I said, she's multilingual," Sen. Kerry quips.