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Like other journalistic histories, this one is based on unnamed sources, but Beschloss, a diplomatic historian, and Talbott, a former TIME columnist who will be coordinating the Clinton Administration's policy toward Russia and the rest of the former Soviet Union, seem to avoid the pitfall -- common to this kind of work -- of overreliance on a single source...
...battle, Zuckerman swiftly chopped down the News' fatted staff, firing 185 newsroom and business employees (out of a total of 540) and at the same time demoralizing even those who were lucky enough to keep their job. Not the least infuriated by this treatment was the Post's star columnist Mike McAlary, who wrote a scorching piece about the "massacre," labeling Zuckerman "a filthy little dictator . . . a tyrant on the political make" who "borrows freely from the fascist handbook" and, furthermore, "knows less than nothing about writing ((and)) even less about newspapers...
Some family. One Post columnist calls his new boss "Repo Man." Another newsman in that shop grouses, "We're sort of like a MASH unit. There's never been enough of anything. We don't know if ((Hoffenberg)) is for real. He talks * a good game. If it turns out to be bluster, we've all been duped...
...Post columnist McAlary did not wait to be duped. To the astonishment of colleagues on both papers, he announced last week that he was going over to the News (for a reported $260,000). Speaking of Hoffenberg, McAlary said, "It's very hard to work for a publisher who, when you talk to him, is staring at the watch on your wrist and the rings on your fingers. I cover crooks. I don't work for them." But how, he was asked, could he work for Zuckerman after denouncing him so viciously? Easy, replied McAlary. "He's willing to look...
Baird was not without defenders, particularly among parents with firsthand experience of a child-care nightmare. "It is ironic," wrote columnist Anna Quindlen, "that the first woman Attorney General-designate has been tripped up by that thing that trips us up day after day, makes us late for meetings, causes us to call in sick when we are well: the struggle for good surrogate care for our kids. Hard sometimes even if you are well to do. Horrid often if you are not." Anne Nelson, author of "Rock-a-Bye Nino: Confessions of a White Mother with a Brown Caregiver...