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...recent weeks The Crimson has come under fire for its sports reporting. We have been accused of being insensitive, overtly negative, opportunistic, and unknowledgeable. And since the annual changeover in the executive editorship of the sports staff has just taken place, I feel a statement of policy of Crimson sports reporting is appropriate...
...were not in such an important teapot, the argument would be a tiny tempest indeed, a disagreement among a small group of men over the editorship of a publication that sells slightly more than 70,000 copies every three months. But the publication is Foreign Affairs-the most prestigious journal of its kind in the world. And the quarrel is a family matter for a major segment of the nation's intellectual and political Establishment-the nearly 1,500 members of the Council on Foreign Relations...
Illegal Policies. Bundy's selection for the coveted editorship was greeted with dismay by some members of the council, chiefly antiwar academics who believed that his part in America's most disastrous foreign adventure made him a poor choice for the editorship. Led by Richard Falk, professor of international law and practice at Princeton, the dissidents lodged a protest with David Rockefeller, chairman of the council board. Said Falk: "Mr. Bundy's role in planning and executing illegal and criminal war policies in Indochina should disqualify him, at least for a period of years, from holding...
Mailer characterized Morris' departure as "the most depressing event in American letters in many a year. Under Willie's editorship. Harper's has been the boldest and most adventurous magazine in America. It's damned depressing to feel that another man gets hit because of you. I know I'm not going to write for Harper's anymore." At the beginning of his tenure at Harper's, Morris published Mailer's "On the Steps of the Pentagon," which subsequently won a Pulitzer Prize in book form as Armies of the Night. Last...
...father of existentialism and refuser of the Nobel Prize explains that he did not accept the editorship so much "to defend La Cause du Peuple as to defend the liberty of the press." He does not align himself with the rabid left-wing advice blazed in La Cause's headlines to "Enlist everybody in the Guerrillas." Yet the paper does report with surprising accuracy riots, demonstrations and strikes. By becoming editor, he hoped to defend freedom of expression by following in his predecessors' footsteps and getting arrested. Indignant that the French government refuses to seize him, Sartre says...