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Article: Atkins Wife Has Beef with New York Mayor.
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- January 22, 2004
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By David Saltonstall, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 22--A day after Mayor Bloomberg called Dr. Robert Atkins "fat" and suggested his slip-and-fall death was "bull----," the widow of the famed diet guru was hoping for an apology.
Fat chance.
Instead, Bloomberg made light of his heavyweight putdown, which was picked up Tuesday by a TV microphone.
"Well, I would never criticize somebody else about their waistline," Bloomberg tried to joke yesterday. "Let me just say, you are what you eat."
That was a few pounds short of what widow Veronica Atkins and others close to the diet guru wanted to ...
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