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...interesting letter is headed President Neil L. Rudenstine's way. As reported in The New York Times two weeks ago, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has dispatched a memo to university presidents and Internet service providers about hate and bigotry on the World Wide Web. The Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights group based in California, suggests that universities and providers, such as Netscape, Inc., limit access to certain web pages that preach anti-Semitism, racism and violence...
...White House acknowledged last week, there had been a collaborator. Barbara Feinman, a veteran book doctor, was hired by publisher Simon & Schuster to help organize the book and draft several chapters. Mrs. Clinton liked the initial chapters, say sources on Feinman's side. As the work progressed, Feinman stayed overnight at the White House and even accompanied the First Family to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, last summer. In October, according to Feinman's side, Mrs. Clinton called the writer to say the work was fine. But after Feinman returned from a trip to Italy, the publisher told her the First Lady...
...both coasts were startled by the abrupt ouster of Frank Biondi as chief executive of Viacom late Wednesday. Biondi, a former HBO executive long viewed as the heir apparent to billionaire Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone, was widely respected for his management of an empire that included Paramount Pictures, Simon & Schuster Books, Blockbuster Entertainment and MTV. In a terse statement issued after the financial markets concluded trading for the day, Viacom said that Redstone, 72, had taken over Biondi's responsibilities and would be forming an executive committee of seven Viacom executives to assist him in running the company. While...
Three days later, U.S. Healthcare told Himmelstein his contract was being terminated. David Simon, U.S. Healthcare senior vice president, denies that Himmelstein was canned for anything he said: "Given the fact that he has expressed a lack of comfort with us, we assumed that he no longer wanted to participate and that he would have welcomed the notice that we provided...
...Healthcare's Simon argues that "there is nothing in our contract that should be construed as interfering with the physician-patient relationship. Doctors are encouraged to have open communications with their patients, about treatment, coverage, benefits, even the mechanism by which they are paid. It's just the specific dollar amounts that are to be withheld." But the contract terms cited by Himmelstein seem to prescribe a far greater circumspection from doctors than that...