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...powerful news organization in Chicago. What he did was an abuse of personal power and an abuse of the newspaper he worked for." That's the rationale Tribune editors used too: "Staff members are forbidden to use their position at the newspaper to gain advantage in personal activities." They insist her age was irrelevant, which has led to more questions. Does this mean no one can date anyone he has ever quoted--or anyone awed by his job? That policy would purge newsrooms far and wide...
Michael Duffy's "Marching Alone" [11 LIVES, THE PRESIDENT, Sept. 9] showed his apparent disdain for President Bush's "simple moral clarity." If the American media insist on trivializing the enormity of Sept. 11 by rinsing its reality away in a river of moral relativism, they will have themselves to blame if terrorists launch an attack even more deadly. MICHAEL O'DRISCOLL Blackrock, Ireland...
...contributed to the criticism that he has made too many on-the-record gaffes by speculating last week in the Wall Street Journal that a war with Iraq might cost from $100 billion to $200 billion on the very day the President was preaching fiscal discipline. White House officials insist Lindsey is not being forced out but that he may conclude on his own that he should go. "No one has been asked to leave yet," says one top aide. Hubbard is well regarded but may also leave to resume his academic career and rejoin his family in New York...
Supporters of the divestment campaign insist they seek to protest the policies of the Sharon government, and not to de-legitimize Israel. I do not doubt the sincerity of this claim, although I cannot help but be bewildered by the Manichean world-view some display. It seems that some of the signers believe that one can only be a supporter of divestment or a supporter of the government of Israeli Prime Minster Ariel Sharon. This belief is apparent in Professor of Psychology Elizabeth Spelke’s and Pierce Professor of Psychology Ken Nakayama’s invitation...
...seek to narrow Saddam's wiggle room by pushing this week for a tough new Security Council resolution setting terms and deadlines for compliance, and warning of military consequences for refusal. But the Council remains focused on sending the inspectors back as soon as possible, and Russia continues to insist that no new resolutions are necessary now that Baghdad has vowed to comply with existing ones. Moscow may eventually come around - particularly if it wins concessions from the U.S. on its own demand to be authorized to pursue Chechen rebels into neighboring Georgia, and guarantees that its economic stake will...