Article: The strategist turns scribbler.(GOP strategist William Kristol launches conservative weekly The Standard)

It all came together one April night after dinner at Rupert Murdoch's house in Beverly Hills, Calif. William Kristol, Fred Barnes and John Podhoretz were standing m front of the fireplace when the Australian-born media tycoon agreed to bankroll the conservative trio's new project: a right-of-center weekly Washington magazine, The Standard. "Let's go ahead with this," Murdoch told his guests. That was all they needed to hear. "New magazines usually fail because they're undercapitized," Barnes told Newsweek. "Well, we're not going to have that problem."

This is not the usual, tentative, hope-this-works-out magazine launch. Murdoch's money combined with the founders' ...

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