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Scrapbook Blix's Black Rose On Nov. 28, the Washington Post broke the news—startling to many—that one of the members of Hans Blix's United Nations weapons inspection team for Iraq was Jack...
...A few students, thinking this beyond the pale, want Kerrey to resign...
...Call it journalism...
...Maybe with the involvement of McGeorge, who once advised that when conducting an interrogation, it's vital to "keep the little bloody buggers tethered down," Saddam Hussein's goons will at least get a good, hard spanking...
...Kerrey was accused of betraying the New School's pacifist legacy and miring the school in controversy...
...Our ideal candidate is someone with excellent design sense and strong production skills...
...There is only one word for our vigor in pursuing a story— whether in Augusta or Afghanistan...
...Another Times employee said it has put executive editor Howell Raines "in danger of losing the building...
...Whether advising to keep Gregorian chants as soft background music, using oatmeal and rice to sub for weevil-filled gruel, or using Palmolive to replicate the viscous feel of blood, McGeorge was a regular Marquis de Martha Stewart...
...Call it journalism...
...spokesman suggests, McGeorge is a "highly qualified and competent technical expert...
...Once this was reported in the Daily News, managing editor Boyd (speaking for himself and editor Howell Raines) uncorked the above-quoted memo, which says that at the Times, "a well-reported, well-reasoned column can come down on any side, with our welcome...
...Thus spake New York Times managing editor Gerald Boyd in a memo last week defending the paper's crusade to force the Augusta National Golf Club, which hosts the annual Masters Tournament, to allow women as members...
...While McGeorge has offered to resign from the inspections team, chief inspector Hans Blix has kept him on...
...A 53-year-old munitions analyst from Woodbridge, Virginia, McGeorge has also held leadership roles in various sadomasochistic sex clubs, a fact that did not turn up in his background check, which is understandable since the United Nations didn't conduct one...
...Having held on to his notes, Labash now reports that one of the quotes seems eerily prophetic...
...Kerrey said he did not want 'to set a precedent so this university begins to be led, like so many other universities in America, by presidents who are so concerned by fundraising needs that they have no public opinion on anything that matters.'" Help Wanted_ THE WEEKLY STANDARD is looking to fill two positions...
...Our ideal candidate for this position is detail-minded and well organized, with substantial computer skills...
...But Kerrey apparently gave as good as he got...
...We were heartened by the report in last Thursday's New York Times about former senator Bob Kerrey, now president of the famously radical New School...
...Maybe this is because, as a U.N...
...Instead, he agreed to what the Times reported was "a raucous, often bitter debate, in which Mr...
...Pre-press and advertising production experience is a plus, as is expertise in QuarkXPress, Photoshop, and Adobe Acrobat...
...It's just a guess, but this may have something to do with management's effort to squash independent-minded reporters...
...The chemical and biological warfare areas are rife with kinky people...
...In any case, while others fret over McGeorge's appointment, we applaud it...
...Reading in the Post that one of the sex clubs McGeorge cofounded is named Black Rose, we were reminded of a piece written by our own Matt Labash nearly seven years ago ("It's an S&M Kind of Thing," Jan...
...A newspaper is, of course, free to put whatever it wants in its pages, not to mention publicly insult its own writers by suggesting that their columns are not well-reported or well-reasoned...
...Such obsessive-ness, one staffer told Seth Mnookin of Newsweek, "makes it hard for us to have credibility on other issues...
...Campus Courage We've pointed out enough campus idiocy on this page to make space for some good news when it comes along...
...McGeorge said that the best investment he ever made was the $7,500 medieval dungeon he constructed in his suburban Virginia basement, which he used for playing interrogation scenarios, from Downed Pilot to Honduras Hangar With a car Battery and a Meathook...
...Seven years ago at the Black Rose seminar, McGeorge told Labash, "I have had several people that I work with come to Black Rose meetings...
...Horrors...
...And yet the Times continues to breathe fire on Augusta...
...Or e-mail to scrapbook@weeklystandard.com...
...Mail resume, work samples, and cover letter with salary requirements to Personnel Department, The Weekly Standard, 1150 17th St., NW, Suite 505, Washington, DC 20036...
...But could there be another reason why the inspections community is loath to jettison McGeorge...
...Newsweek recently published a major article on bias at the paper of record...
...But in fact, the speaker was Jack McGeorge...
...But for a column to disagree with the editorial page is, well, "unseemly and self-absorbed...
...2) Assistant Art Director...
...and, following that, media junkie Jim Rom-enesko posted the memo from Boyd on his MediaNews website...
...The willingness to mention a major war and a minor editorial campaign in the same pompous breath is a fine example of why Times-watching has lately evolved from right-wing hobbyhorse to big-time bipartisan bloodsport...
...Kerrey is also a founding member of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, a group he described last month as intended to explain why "the liberation of Iraq is something the United States ought to do...
...1) Production Assistant...
...After he filed a column arguing that this is not Tiger's "fight or any golfer's fight," Anderson said "it was decided by the editors that we should not argue with the editorial page...
...Mnookin's article describes a growing divide between staff and management...
...Times editors, Colford reports in the Daily News, recently killed two columns on Augusta by Times sports-writers—one by Harvey Araton, the other by Pulitzer Prize-winner Dave Anderson...
...Labash identified the speaker, a former Secret Service agent, as "Bilbo" for his "uncanny resemblance to Tolkien's Hobbit...
...But only the New York Times is conceited enough to stifle dissent and then "call it journalism...
...For all the hubbub, the whole thing felt like Old Home Week to The Scrapbook...
...28, the Washington Post broke the news—startling to many—that one of the members of Hans Blix's United Nations weapons inspection team for Iraq was Jack McGeorge...
...Expertise in QuarkXPress and Photoshop is required...
...15, 1996...
...last week, the superb Daily News columnist Paul Colford came up with his own big scoop on this rich subject...
...In a line that drew loud applause, Mr...
...Many in the media were aghast, and began picking over his resume, taking note of the fact that his S&M expertise seemed to surpass his munitions expertise, since McGeorge merely holds an associate's degree in security management from a community college, while he has been honored as a "doctor of S&M arts and letters" from something called "Leather University...
...It has published 37 stories this year on the club's membership policies...
...Labash was reporting on the S&M scene in the supposedly buttoned-down suburbs of Washington in the interest of—well, who knows what his interest was, but he attended a Black Rose conference...
...The columns were spiked because they were at odds with the position taken by the paper's editorial page: that Tiger Woods should skip the Masters until Augusta relents on its men-only membership policy...
...The piece noted that McGeorge was good for all sorts of useful tips in a "How to conduct an Interrogation" seminar, which he delivered in his Inquisition rig: black tights, executioner's mask, Sherwood Forest blouse...
Vol. 8 • December 2002 • No. 14
