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...anyone who submits a publishable note to the journal has become an editor. "There's a good deal of concern among officers and members about getting women and minorities to write notes," says editor-in-chief John Campbell. Current editors work with students to give them advice and edit their notes. Of Harvard's system, Campbell says. "They put themselves in a difficult position when they select on the basis of grades. I don't see grades as a proxy for good editorial skills...
...limited talent, $35 million worth of hubris. When the film opened in New York last November it received universally poor reviews. The New York Times called it "an unqualified disaster." The film's distributor, United Artists, withdrew it from N.Y. theaters after only one week. Cimino promised to re-edit the film from its 225 minutes to a more conventional length of 2 1/2 hours. Unprecedented humiliation in Movieland...
...that goes beyond the daily newspapers or the T.V. Guide's promo columns. That started happening as television became more sophisticated or, at least, more technologically sophisticated. Once t.v. evolved into something beyond the simple transmission of stage plays--when video, mini-cams, and that all-important ability to edit came into the scene--the force of the medium creeped into the national consciousness. With books like Joe McGinnis's The Selling of the President 1968, people began suspecting that television had some extraordinary power. Then came the Vietnam broadcasts, the moon shots, the Olympics. Television began validating an awful...
...deal with such criticism is to edit the King James, clipping some oddities of language and correcting notable errors. Several Protestant editions attempt just that...
Heather had grabbed a terminal that morning and refused to relinquish it. She had 40 pages to type into her files that day, pages she wanted to cut and edit and perfect, but she was running out of time. The chances of being able to print anything out that day dimmed, and Heather had a vision that she would have to enlist every friend she had on Wednesday night to type the entire thesis because the printer was exhausted. She swore she'd tell every junior she knew never, never to try to type a thesis onto the computer...