Maureen Dowd's Most Expensive -- And Sickest -- Column Ever

The the Washington Post’s Michael Abramowitz details how the New York Times got incredibly sick while following President Bush around the Middle East (“With no medication, she tried to soldier on by grabbing whatever rest she could in her hotel room–not easy to do in a trip of constant movements. By the time the presidential entourage moved to Bahrain from Kuwait on Saturday, she felt even worse. She was so sick, in fact, that she could not write her regular Sunday column.”)