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Several articles have appeared in The Globeleading up to the Celebration, most notably anexhaustive duo by Gil Fuchsberg '85 providing aclose look at the current state of Harvardfinances and its marketing of the 350th. The Globewill cover the three convocations and 16 of themore provocative and potentially newsworthysymposia, says Anne Weyman, who is coordinatingthe paper's 350th coverage...
...West43rd Street offices consider goings-on at theCollege on the Charles among the news that's fitto print. A rhapsodic cover piece on Harvard at350, for instance, graced the The Times's SundayMagazine earlier this summer. However, The Timesdoes not plan the type of comprehensive coverageof the 350th which garnered it a Pulitzer 50 yearsago...
...hard to judge [the celebration] as a newsevent, and an anniversary story per se doesn'texcite us," says Times Deputy National EditorDaniel Lewis. "[The 350th] is hard to define as anews event that requires a full-court press...
Still, The Times will run a daily round-upstory on happenings at the 350th, and publishgeneral features on the University by BostonBureau Chief Fox Butterfield...
Lewis says the paper "is tending to underplaythe thing" because of the prominent magazinearticle, and the University's decision to portraythe 350th--unlike the 300th--as an event withoutgreat reverberations beyond Harvard Yard. "Ourproblem is figuring out how we can report thisseriously without covering every nickle and dime,"he says...