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Saturday, November 26, 2005

Even the mayor wonders: Who is the real Jim West?

Spokesman-Review Editor Steven Smith says coverage of the West story went from shocking, to bizarre and then moved to the point where "it's just grindingly pathetic and sad and dismal." West, Smith says, "is standing up there and allowing us to whack away at him."