It's a late-breaking story, and CNN's American Morning clearly thought it had a big "get" — a live interview with the brother of Bruce Ivins, a federal biodefense researcher who killed himself as the government prepared to charge him in the anthrax mailings of late 2001.
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When Thomas -- whoops, I mean, Tom -- Ivins coughed or sneezed or spit up a lung (or maybe all three) into his phone's mike, beautifully amplified by CNN's sound pickup, I thought I was going to fall out of my chair.
In a more perfect world, nearly all interviews would be like this.
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-- "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to prepare for waking up tomorrow with Pareene's social security number and one of my kidneys missing."
Michael Weiss
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