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After that episode, TIME sent me for media training with Joanne Stevens, M.S., who runs Stevens Media Consulting Ltd. Her office had a very Jack Paar-inspired set with a desk in front of a painted New York City backdrop. She gave me advice like not to wear hats "unless you have a clever or serious reason for wearing one" and to avoid the temptation of swivel chairs. She also told me, "You're the man," "Be the man," "Just be the man," and "It makes you the man." After reviewing the tape we had made, where I did fine...
Senior editor JANICE C. SIMPSON got to travel exactly nowhere while she oversaw this week's profile of Frank Gehry as well as the cover story on reality-television programming. In fact, she barely had time to leave her desk. "Putting both stories in the magazine," says Simpson, "reflects the crazy and endlessly exciting mix of important art and trivial pursuit that makes up our cultural life at the turn of this century...
...when the Administration was headed for an embarrassing defeat. The job was a killer. It lacked Cabinet status, had no staff and had less than a third of the Democrats in support. He jumped right in. Former U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor remembers that even before Daley had a desk, he was placing calls from a bench in Lafayette Park, across from the Oval Office. He relied on the arm-twisting and schmoozing skills implanted in his DNA. And Windy City theatrics: with great fanfare, he gathered three former Presidents for an East Room rally boosting the treaty. It passed...
While Daley is a strict taskmaster--he is at his neat desk at 7 a.m., fires people who don't measure up and gets even quietly--he's a popular boss. He dines at his desk off Styrofoam, rides up front with the driver of his government car and thinks a perfect night on the town is a thick steak at the Palm with his son William Jr. (A second son died of lung disease when he was eight years old.) He's a neighbor of Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Fred Thompson in a downtown condo and visits...
...tasteful and forward-thinking is the Main Library that it's almost possible to overlook its biggest lack--books. Bookshelves seem like an afterthought amid the "centers" and galleries that line the building, so much so that the stacks are omitted entirely from the map distributed at the information desk. The entire general fiction collection, for instance, is contained in one row of bookshelves along a single wall. While the Main claims about a million books, most are hidden away in special compact stacks accessible only to staff members, or in underground storage areas from which titles must be specially...