Article: New Republic taps New Yorker writer: Michael Kelly sees `good fit' as editor.(Nation)

Taking a cue from the competition, the New Republic is filling its top vacancy this fall by catching a star from a rival magazine.

Michael Kelly, a second-generation journalist and Washington native who currently writes about politics for the New Yorker - a virtual encampment of

ex-Repub-

lic editors and scribes - will become the New Republic's editor and chief columnist after the November elections.

In an interview yesterday, Mr. Kelly, 39, called his next assignment "a good fit."

The magazine "has a long tradition of anti-orthodoxy, of nondoctrinal honesty," he said.

"I have ideas, and I have beliefs. I ...

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