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Last month Joe Robinowitz, the news director, was composing a memo to the chairman of Fox Television in Los Angeles on the prospective replacement of employees who were "inept," "shallow" or "politically correct." In preparation for this task, he wrote, he had been consulting with conservative media critics, including L. Brent Bozell III, chairman of the Media Research Center, and Reed Irvine, head of Accuracy in Media. Singling out ineptitude and shallowness presumably would not have raised eyebrows, but hunting down political correctness in the company of Messrs. Bozell and Irvine was distinctly incorrect. Alas for Robinowitz, he left...
...When I received the memo and check from the Treasury last summer I was completely caught by surprise," Gabay said. "I certainly had no prior knowledge of the situation, and I didn't feel that the Council had any business trying to take charge of a sum of money that large...
...week after Clinton took the oath of office, Magaziner circulated a secret 26-page memo to the First Lady, Cabinet officers and a few close political advisers of the President. Drawing on the Merck speech, Magaziner asserted flatly that managed competition -- with caps on payments -- was the model for Clinton's reform. Ruling out more radical approaches, Magaziner's memo said further that the chief goal of the coming months was to work out the most controversial aspect of the plan: how to finance the new system...
...drove his colleagues to distraction. Little was committed to paper because nothing was decided with any finality. "Everything just keeps accumulating in Ira's head," said a task-force member. At one point, members pushed Magaziner to lay out the plan -- as it then stood -- in a two-page memo, but he resisted the idea, warning colleagues that too many details were leaking. In what some took as divine intervention, a flu epidemic swept through the task force in late spring, temporarily sidelining dozens of ! participants. Even Magaziner, who was bearing up better than most, caught walking pneumonia. Late...
...memo was not made public until last week,when it was released to The Crimson upon request...