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...Carol Oates, Desmond Tutu, Václav Havel and Alison Lurie; in New York City. Epstein was a junior editor at Doubleday when she helped produce Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl in 1952. During a 1963 newspaper strike, she helped launch the Review with her then husband Jason Epstein and shared, with Robert Silvers, responsibility of editing it for the next 43 years. Her sharp pencil and abiding friendliness won the admiration of authors as well as readers, and the biweekly became known as a hive of intellectual vigor, ambitious writing and unapologetically liberal views...
...lead with under a minute left. But Cornell captain Lenny Collins kept his team alive by scoring eight straight Big Red points down the stretch, including an off-balance three pointer that tied the score at 77. Harvard couldn’t answer, and a put-back from forward Jason Hartford with a second left gave Cornell the 79-77 victory. The Crimson appeared to have sloughed off the effects of the bad trip to Ithaca the next weekend, as Harvard led nemesis Princeton by six with a minute to play in front of a sell-out Lavietes crowd...
...this painting has done enough time as shorthand for a sentiment along the lines of "Man is so small, the world about him so vast, gaze on it with me, won't you?" Then again, sometimes exactly that sentiment is called for. Such is the case with Jason Roberts' A Sense of the World (HarperCollins; 382 pages), an enthralling biography of a man you've never heard of named James Holman...
...fast-paced new book, Killer Instinct (St. Martin's; 406 pages), Finder spent months interviewing staff members at technology giant NEC and other plasma-TV makers. The novel's hero, Jason Steadman, 30, is a sales exec at Entronics, a fictional Japanese-owned corporation. Although Steadman is a devotee of military-style business books, he's no warrior on the corporate battlefield--until he meets Kurt Semko, a former special-forces officer who did a stint in Iraq. "He's everything Gordy [his boss] and all these other phony tough guys pretend to be," Steadman thinks. "Sitting in their Aeron...
...every big company is convinced, however, that the long tail is relevant for business. Microsoft, which relies on monster software hits like Office, "is clearly a short-tail development house," says the company's corporate standards director, Jason Matusow. He rejects the idea that the long tail--in this case, open-source software developers--poses a threat. "People say the long tail is the perfect way to look at open-source software and understand how it's going to save the world," Matusow says. "But with 400 million users, we're enabling the long tail...