By Carl Swanson 11/08/99 12:00am

The New Republic ‘s Peter Beinart Cans His First Editor

Just call him the Butcher Boy. On Nov. 1, just weeks after becoming the editor of The New Republic , Peter Beinart, 28, fired someone: senior editor Jacob Heilbrunn.

Mr. Heilbrunn is older than Mr. Beinart–he’s 34–and was known as the “liberal hawk” of the New Republic staff, according to one of his friends. (This Read More

By Nick Paumgarten 9/13/99 12:00am

Wasserstein Cuts His Daily Deal

On the evening of Sept. 16, about 600 of Bruce Wasserstein’s closest friends and fellow deal makers will gather in the Pool Room of the Four Seasons to celebrate the Sept. 15 launch of The Daily Deal , a new tabloid chronicling the world of doing deals. The Pool Room is a fancy place for Read More