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After re-reading it, I think you're correct. I had originally taken "cringe-worthy" as relating to the fact that CNN put the story at the top, but I think that was just projection on my part. I think you're right that she feels the haircuts themselves are "cringe-worthy." One worries for the epileptic seizures Fairbanks must go through when she reads headlines about things like carbombs in Iraq and the twisted policies that got us mired there.