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Whitaker began interning at Newsweek after his sophomore year, and hasn’t worked at another publication since. Alter, who serves as Whitaker’s unofficial adviser, a “minister without portfolio,” has been writing a regular column for the magazine for over a decade...
...David Donald. He also remembers a course at the Kennedy School with the Charles Warren Professor of History Ernest May and Richard Neustadt called “The Uses of History,” which he says has “proven very helpful to me for my column, since one of the things I like to do is provide history as context for current affairs...
...limitless naiveté, I believed that I actually had the power not only to provoke thought, not only to provide people with a little bit of entertainment as they skimmed my column over breakfast, but to cause something tangible to happen. Boy was I wrong. Sure, the columns produced a few interesting e-mail exchanges with faculty and administrators and even the occasional letter to the editor—but within a few days of publication I was usually the only person who remembered that any given article of mine had ever been written...
...Tahoe. The most commonly filched cars were all made in the 1990s. Why? Ed Sparkman of the National Insurance Crime Bureau thinks newer autos are less attractive to thieves since carmakers now include better antitheft devices. Consumers looking for postfactory theft prevention have a variety of choices, including steering-column collars and tracking devices...
...appeal to centrist swing voters. Come fall, Kerry could also find himself in a situation similar to what Gore faced--be forced to spend precious time and money campaigning in states like Washington and Maine that, without Nader in the race, would be solidly in his column...