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...Association Committee has 15 local members and 11 national members and is chaired by Anne H. Peretz, who will sit on the new board of trustees as well...
Composed of several longtime PBHA supporters, including Agee Professor of Social Ethics Robert Coles '50, PBHA Association Committee Chair Anne H. Peretz and Rev. G. Stewart Barns, former president of United Ministries, the Board of Trustees met for the first time on Friday...
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...
...meantime, the magazine, like Washington without Mayor Marion Barry, goes on. "I have a strong staff in place. They don't need direction from above, which is good, since they haven't had any for quite a while," says Peretz, referring to the lackadaisical editing of the recently departed Sullivan. Last week Peretz interviewed Joseph Nocera, of the Washington Monthly and FORTUNE. He joins a list of semifamous, boldface names 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...
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...