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...lifelong Democrat who walked precincts for Dukakis in 1988, worked as a staffer for the Clinton campaign in 1992, and has served for two years on the executive board of the College Democrats, I would not strike most people as one who would take Bob Michel for a hero. But a hero...
...Staffers of the British Broadcasting Corp. working in Bosnia were hopping mad after getting an interoffice memo from London headquarters warning that Her Majesty's Customs and Excise Service was threatening to confiscate flak jackets needed in Bosnia. Customs, according to the memo, had also become concerned about whether four-wheel-drive vehicles were being illegally exported. It added, "The BBC, presumably in their eyes a well-known terrorist group, would be treated like any other potential mercenary." The document concluded with the sarcastic assertion that should any staffer get "shot dead by some scumbag in Bosnia," the BBC would...
...joke was on me a few days later. After I had edited it, printed a final copy, and sent it out--complete with a staffer's forgery of the senator's signature--my supervisor noticed the photocopy I left on her desk. She discovered that I had neglected to delete my little addition...
Despite his kids-in-the-hall casualness around the office, Letterman is a fiercely driven perfectionist who controls virtually every detail of his show. "There's more tension than any place I've ever worked," says an ex- staffer. Letterman rejects reams of material submitted by his team of a dozen writers, and he crosses off potential guests by the score. "We'd hand in a list of 50 guests, and he'd say no to 48," says a frustrated former booker. He is also notoriously moody and has last-minute pangs of self-doubt. "In the makeup room five...
Third-year student and Record staffer Bob Daut draws an analogy between the MacIntyre column and "your made-for-TV movies based on drama," saying that both are "chroni-calization[s] of reality...