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...even abusive--until last Wednesday, when he was finally exposed by a handwriting analysis in the Washington Post. In fact, one of his worst performances was on the weekend before the New Hampshire primary when, enraged by the New York article, he publicly berated the magazine's political columnist, Jacob Weisberg, and questioned the professionalism of editor in chief Kurt Andersen and Vassar professor Donald Foster, the Shakespearean scholar who had analyzed Klein's prose...
...style of the Netanyahu government has American undertones, so does its substance. Israel's CEA will be headed by Jacob Frenkel, governor of the Bank of Israel. A disciple of free marketeer Milton Friedman, Frenkel is a graduate of the University of Chicago, and taught economics there. His job is to help Netanyahu deliver Friedmanesque reforms to the still largely socialized Israeli economy: slashing spending, cutting taxes and breaking up monopolies. Netanyahu's Director of Policy Planning and Communications is David Bar-Illan, the outgoing executive editor of the Jerusalem Post. Bar-Illan, a dual U.S.-Israeli national, spent nearly...
...such as Stephanopoulos and Eric Breindel (editorial-page editor of the New York Post and significant other of Lally Weymouth, daughter of Washington Post matriarch Katharine Graham); and wise guys like Michael Lewis, who filed fascinating dispatches from the campaign trail, including information on his own body odor; and Jacob Weisberg, probably the most brilliant young fogy to pass through the magazine since Michael Kinsley; and Mickey Kaus, author of a book on welfare reform and a worthy Kinsley successor as the TRB columnist. Margaret Talbot, executive editor since 1995, might be the best contender if it weren...
Several students yesterday identified the student as Jacob Carson...
...many New Republic veterans were put off by what they described as Sullivan's disingenuous manner, penchant for sizzle over substance, and lack of close involvement in the editorial process. A number of longtime editors, including Jacob Weisberg, Morton Kondracke, Mickey Kaus and Michael Kinsley, left during Sullivan's tenure. And one of his new hires, Ruth Shalit--whose stories included a much discussed piece suggesting favoritism to blacks in the Washington Post newsroom--got in hot water for alleged plagiarism and inaccurate reporting. After initially defending her, Sullivan placed Shalit on a leave of absence...