Word: peretz
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Press the pound sign if you think you're going to be the next editor of the New Republic. So many journalists have been interviewed for the job that if you're not on owner Marty Peretz's long list to replace Andrew Sullivan, who left three weeks ago, you may never eat lunch in this town again. Peretz says he's moving "methodically," which is understandable. No owner wants to rush that enchanted period that makes red-ink publishing more rewarding than real estate, when a publisher gets to dangle one of the great prizes in American letters before...
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...
...Profs. Discuss Mideast," (news story, March 20): No fair-minded person would call the event with Messrs. Dershowitz and Peretz, as The Crimson does, a debate. Both speakers are well-known apologists for Israel. While terrorism is vile, and must be condemned by all, the two speakers seem to hold the view that terrorism is innate to Palestinian character or society. Prof. Dershowitz links "the legitimization of terrorism" to the "legitimization of the legitimization of the PLO by the world community." The implication is that the PLO, and by extension, we presume, Palestinians, are the barbarians at the gate...
...Peretz compared the current Israeli-Palestinian negotiations to those between the Irish Republican Army and the British government, referring to the situation in Israel as "one-way peace...
After criticizing Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat for honoring the "intentions and ambitions" of Arab terrorists, Peretz said withdrawal of Israeli troops from the West Bank compromises Israel's security...