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Some students circumvent this situation by (gasp!) lying about their academic affiliation. "I used to just say I want to NYU if I was with people that I could tell would make a big deal of it," admits Emily G. Heyward '01. "I had this terrible experience the summer before I came to Harvard: the people I was with could totally not get over it. All night, they just kept bringing it up in the middle of conversations and calling me 'Harvard'--so annoying...
First-year Heyward notes that she no longer considers attending Harvard such a big deal. "At this point, I'm here, and I'm not so intrigued by the concept of Harvard anymore. It's just my life," she says...
Viewers will not be looking at a conventional broadcast news set. Instead, CBS News anchor Dan Rather will walk through a computer-generated gallery of some of the century's most luminous and unforgettable faces. "We're using 21st century technology to sum up the 20th century," says Andrew Heyward, president of CBS News. Strolling about electronically among those famous names was thought provoking, says Rather: "Watching the program, participating in discussions and trying to think of candidates for my own private TIME 100, I've had a rare opportunity to reflect on what's important...
Westin's appointment came as a surprise to many in the news division. While both NBC and CBS have recently opted for news presidents with substantial producing experience (CBS's Andrew Heyward and NBC's Andrew Lack are both former newsmagazine producers), Westin is a lawyer who joined ABC in 1991 as general counsel. He moved up quickly, becoming head of the network's in-house production units and then president of the network, overseeing news, sports, entertainment and other operations. Yet Westin, caught between strong division chiefs and his immediate superior, Iger, found his duties constricted, and he jumped...
Which still leaves consumers the task of sorting through it all. "People are experiencing a great information overload," says CNN president Tom Johnson. "It's up to us to find ways to simplify how the audience can receive this information." CBS News president Andrew Heyward sees another problem with the news explosion. "We seem to have lost a sense of proportion," he says. "Everything is made to seem equally important, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the latest scandal in Washington. We lack the vocabulary to convey the true importance of some events, because we're always moving...