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...Heir Apparent...
Everyone at the New York Times knew that Joe Lelyveld would be the next executive editor, although most people didn't expect announcement of his elevation as soon as last week. What almost nobody knew, and everybody speculated about, was who would replace him as managing editor and heir apparent. The answer, revealed to several hundred assembled staff members last week, surprised practically everyone in the news business...
...definitely not the heir apparent: Eugene Roberts, who at 61 is four years Lelyveld's senior and who left the Times in 1972 to transform the soggy Philadelphia Inquirer into one of the nation's foremost dailies. Lelyveld calls the low-key, deceptively shrewd Roberts "one of the great strategic thinkers in journalism," a judgment shared by most people in the industry. Several have tried to lure Roberts back into editing since he retired in 1990, after spurring his Inquirer staff to win 17 Pulitzer Prizes in 18 years on topics ranging from the intricacies of the federal budget...
Wilson established a reputation as a comer on her 1988 album Blue Skies, in which she stunningly reinterpreted such standards as Shall We Dance and I've Grown Accustomed to His Face. Ever since, critical accolades have been rolling in. Recently, Billboard crowned her "heir apparent to divas Betty Carter, Carmen McRae, Abbey Lincoln and Sarah Vaughan." Critics aside, top jazz performers want to work with her. Wilson is the featured vocalist in Blood on the Fields, a new big-band piece written by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that can be heard on National Public Radio this week...
...West is now waiting to see whether Pyongyang backs down. Some analysts are sure the end of the diplomatic road has already been reached. They argue that the regime and especially its unproved heir apparent, Kim Jong Il, view an atomic program as the trump card of their credibility and will not forgo it for anything. Other experts think Pyongyang might eventually give up its nuclear dream, but only in exchange for massive economic aid, a guarantee of Western support for Kim Jong Il's succession and a withdrawal of U.S. troops from the South -- concessions neither Seoul nor Washington...