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Strugnell won the top editorship in 1987 owing to his long involvement with the scrolls. He then faced growing scholarly anger because, 43 years after the first documents were discovered, one-fifth or more of the scrolls are still unpublished and unavailable to academe. His five colleagues on the scrolls team cited the delays as a reason to remove Strugnell, but other experts contend that he has worked to end the logjam...
...Justices hire four clerks each; the other two hire three. Because the court acts like nine separate law offices, each Justice follows his or her own acceptance procedures. But among the virtual application requisites for all Justices are graduation from a top law school, stellar grades, a law-review editorship and, in recent years, an interim internship with a lower-court judge. "The key," advises one former clerk, "is to get to know someone on the faculty who was a clerk and let that person know the quality of your mind...
Fair enough. Being a point person in the workplace revolution carries a high risk of getting shot. Schreiber retreated to a deputy editorship at the Times Sunday Book Review, a backwater, it turned out, that was not quite the backwater she had in mind. In 1985, single and approaching the middling age of 40, she left Manhattan for the eddying pace of a trout stream in upstate New York. The scene was set for a life of house renovation, fishing, reading and writing. Instead, Schreiber was jerked back to old realities by the news that her mother was dying...
...That describes the ouster of legendary staffers who have lived out their usefulness to Si Newhouse, chairman of his family's publishing conglomerate. In 1987 William Shawn was suddenly removed as editor of the New Yorker after 35 years. Last year fashion doyenne Grace Mirabella was dethroned from the editorship at Vogue after 17 years; reportedly, she first learned the news of her dismissal from a friend who heard...
...consider committing suicide. But it went both ways. One early employee remembers an army of consultants, "men with boiled-out faces who said 'gals' and complained about 'old women.' So you see what the attitude was and how she had to fight." Isolde Motley, who was wooed from an editorship at Arts & Antiques and then fired before she even started working, nonetheless remains sympathetic. "I never met an entrepreneurial publisher who wasn't an egocentric maniac," Motley says. "She has a lot of guts and a great sense of mission...