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...snuck off to intern for "Late Night with David Letterman" last winter. I was there for about five months working in the talent department and generally doing whatever they needed me to do. Now that I'm back in school, I have been getting a lot of questions about my experience. So I thought it would be a lot easier to answer them in bulk...
Dave also has a little mind game he likes to play with the interns that I wasn't able to avoid: Whenever he gets into an elevator and an intern is the only other passenger, Dave hangs out in the door talking to people. Only he doesn't just hang; he hovers there, just in and out enough so that the intern doesn't know whether to press the Door Open button or to just wait. It's nerve-racking enough to have to contemplate what you are going to say to David Letterman during a 14 floor ride...
...about Soviet politics is given added breadth by her abiding interest in the works of Chekhov, and Kevin Fedarko, who has a master's in Russian history and literature. In Washington, Strobe Talbott and David Aikman provided insights gained doing numerous Soviet stories. Since 1969, when he was an intern in the Moscow bureau, Strobe has made nearly 30 trips to the Soviet Union. His story on Gorbachev and the hard-liners in this week's special section draws on reporting from a visit there early this summer. Talbott is collaborating with historian Michael Beschloss on a book about...
Carney, who majored in Russian and East European studies at Yale and speaks fluent Russian, worked as a summer intern at TIME in 1986. He spent part of the following year studying in Leningrad, where he got a close-up look at the first wave of Mikhail Gorbachev's attempts at reform. Starting in 1988 as TIME's Miami bureau chief, Carney covered Gorbachev's trip to Cuba and the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989. All the while he yearned to return to the Soviet Union. Events there seemed to be moving so fast, he recalls, "I used...
Wong sang with the Opportunes for three years, worked as an intern for the Bunting Institute, participated in a Phillips Brooks House tutoring program, taught in CityStep, and acted in several musicals...