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...most frequently gossiped about reporter in Tabloid Valley is Brian Hogan, a grizzled Aussie with Peter O'Toole eyes and a seemingly infinite ; capacity to imbibe. Once a renowned master of stunt journalism ("The reporter is the catalyst for the story," explains Hogan, straight-faced), he has been reincarnated as the editor of the Get Rich News, the valley's latest contribution to supermarket racks. Hogan's favorite sidesplitter is a simple story titled "X Rays Can Be Dangerous," about an X-ray machine with loose hinges that collapsed on a patient and killed...
Balfour, once Hogan's editor at the Enquirer, asks him, "Remember when I sent you on the bread-and-water bit?" Hogan's ice-blue eyes glisten as he reinforces himself with a Guinness and recalls the caper: "I was a proper bum, with mud on me, crummy clothes, tacky shoes. In East Hampton ((N.Y.)), I went to a swank estate, and the maid pulled a gun on me the size of a howitzer." Balfour adds, "The White House turned him away. Gracie Mansion told him they didn't give out bread and water." Hogan whispers, "Only Burt Reynolds...
...Hogan added that DOE representatives appear tobe avoiding debate with him on the study'sfindings. He said that seven times since thereport's release last September he had beeninvited to debate DOE officials around thecountry, but that the Energy Department expertshad failed to appear each time...
Written by Bradshaw Professor of Public PolicyWilliam H. Hogan and EEPC Assistant Director BijanMossavar-Rahmani, the report advocates a $5 abarrel oil import fee, saying that a tariff willhelp reduce American dependence on oil sourcesfrom the volatile Persian Gulf area. In addition,the study challenges the findings of a 1987 DOEreport, called "Energy Security," which the EEPCsays miscalculated by $200 billion the costs of anoil import...
...Hogan and Mossavar-Rahmani stand by the waythe study was promoted, saying it was in theirinterest to have it as widely circulated aspossible...