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This weekend there will be yet another set of people roaming curiously through the great Harvard Yard. They won't be part of the normal flux of 500-people-per-group tourists whose pictures we have all walked through while they invent new posing positions with the John Harvard statue. Neither will they be part of the teenie-bopper Harvard Model Congress crowd whose biggest thrill is chilling at the T-stop. No, this weekend is Junior Parents Weekend. Hundreds of curious, concerned, but also proud parents have travelled long distances to take a picture with John Harvard, grab...
...attended a party thrown by childhood friend Marlo Thomas and got into a characteristically vituperative argument with Leonard Goldberg, then a vice president at ABC. The older man, impressed with Diller's "willfulness"--Diller's word (again)--eventually offered him a job at the network. There he helped invent the mini-series, popularized TV movies and had the perspicacity to hire young Michael Eisner away from his job as a CBS children's programmer...
...Riley, a former TIME bureau chief, veteran of several presidential campaigns and, most recently, a Nieman Fellow at Harvard (where he spent the academic year exploring the potential of digital journalism). "Both TIME and CNN have histories of creating new forms of journalism," says Riley. "They know how to invent something...
...years, I helped create products--like Pathfinder, our Internet service--that had no models or histories. Every day we faced issues for which there were no precedents to rely upon or be constrained by. Now I'm facing the opposite challenge, one that is no less exciting: helping invent a product that has been invented and reinvented nearly 3,800 times--every week for almost 73 years--and has a wealth of tradition unsurpassed by any other magazine that has ever existed...
...Orleans, where I come from, folks are divided into two categories: preachers and storytellers. I'm a bit more in the storyteller camp. I believe that ever since we invented campfires, narrative tales have been the best way to capture people's attention, to convey ideas and moral beliefs. And as an occasional biographer, I believe that portraying interesting people is a good way to make the world come alive. "TIME did not invent personality journalism," Luce once said. "The Bible...