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Insiders say such problems--not to mention a pair of pending libel suits--led publisher Martin Peretz to ask for Sullivan's resignation at a meeting last Thursday morning. Peretz has declined to comment. In an interview with TIME, Sullivan insisted that his leaving was "absolutely my decision." Yet he admitted that the magazine is a "rough-and-tumble place" and that internecine tensions existed. "I wanted to challenge the world a little, and I made some mistakes," he said. "But my responsibility is to the readers, and if that meant occasionally infuriating a colleague...
...suit will contain eight or nine charges, including libel, defamation of character and illegal search, Afrasiabi said...
...dismaying, in this public forum, to be the subject of libel by a Harvard Fellow, Lee A. Daniels (letter, March 7), and by a tenured Harvard professor, Martin Kilson (letter, March 12). Kilson calls me a "neo-White supremacist," or something close to it. Daniels calls me a "neo-Confederate" and offers an object lesson of how to deconstruct an author's text--without quoting it (see my letter of February 21)--in order to show that the author meant to say exactly the opposite of what the author actually said...
...suits filed by his former employers since he left the company in 1993, he is countersuing, claiming B&W invaded his privacy, made false statements about his personal life, destroyed evidence and abused the legal process in an effort to intimidate him. He is also weighing a libel action against B&W, IGI and Manhattan publicist John Scanlon for waging what he regards as a smear campaign. "I believe the industry as a whole is flagrantly deceptive and dishonest," he explains. "It says one thing and does another, and I think the public needs to know that...
...wearing a Green Bay Packers T shirt. All right, this was Dallas, and it was a little insensitive to flaunt the enemy team's logo on the weekend of the N.F.C. championship game, but Young was making the common assumption that if you stay away from obscenity, libel or, perhaps in this case, the subject of groceries, it is a free country, isn't it? Only problem was he had not read the First Amendment carefully enough: it says government cannot abridge freedom of expression. Private employers can, on a whim, and they do so every...