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...based publishing house behind the project - trucked in an extra 3,000 copies that it had intended to distribute nationally and ordered a second printing. One newsie near the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, sold out of the paper before he'd even gotten out of his car. A local bookstore had a waitlist that totaled more than 100 names. Dave Eggers, McSweeney's founder and Panorama's mastermind, was shocked. "I thought there'd be some excitement, but this went beyond anything I expected," he said. With traditional media outlets facing staff cuts, budget restraints and buyouts...
...daily concern. "I don't think any one paper would look like this on a given day," he says. "We're just saying that other publications could take some of these features and sprinkle them into the mix." To him, Panorama works best when thought of as a "concept car at an auto show" - something that's sleek and beautiful but wholly unnecessary for someone who just wants to drive to the grocery store...
...longer lose sleep over the fact that their teams aren't in the trophy hunt. Win or lose, their devotees fill the stadiums each Saturday because they enjoy a premium college football game. But they don't suffer existential meltdowns if the team fails to reach the Meineke Car Care Bowl...
...David Cole, head of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich., notes that despite the bankruptcy, GM still holds the top spot in the U.S. car market, with 20% of the market, down from more than 40% in the late 1970s and just ahead of Toyota and Ford. In addition, the new labor contracts with the United Auto Workers have helped GM trim costs by $5,000 per vehicle with changes in health care benefits and work rules. The work rules have been whittled down, giving GM's managers more flexibility and control than they...
Halberstam, a former Crimson managing editor who later won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Vietnam, was killed in a car accident in San Francisco...