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Back last September when TIME decided to venture into cyberspace, where no newsmagazine had gone before, we chose America Online as our launch vehicle and Tom Mandel, a professional futurist with a keen sense of the present, as our guide. Since then TIME Online has become a popular destination in this fast-growing computer-network universe. Within the past three months, the number of visitors to TIME Online has increased from 40,000 a week to 60,000, a trend that shows no sign of slowing. America Online, which had 350,000 users in September, now boasts more than...
...appreciation for Mandel has increased at a similar rate. As a consultant who manages our presence on the network, he oversees the message boards, starts new topics and keeps an eye on the overall operation of the system. In practice this requires him to be part newsman, part technical specialist and part space-age jurist who presides over sometimes substantive disputes online. "As soon as we opened for business, gun enthusiasts jumped on us for what they saw as TIME's antigun bias," says technology editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "It has fallen largely to Tom to figure...
...professional futurist and management consultant with SRI International in Menlo Park, California, Mandel considers that the greatest appeal of TIME Online stems from the opportunity to "mix it up" with staff members and even, every now and again, with the people we interview. "When we had Billy Graham live online, the response was tremendous," Mandel says. "I'd never seen anyone be so charismatic through the computer...
...were reports that Reagan civil rights official Linda Chavez had accused Ed Rollins of suggesting voter suppression when she ran for a U.S. Senate seat from Maryland in 1986. But Chavez told Time that she was actually referring to a secret proposal from Maryland's former Democratic Governor Marvin Mandel to use G.O.P. funds to support Chavez instead of Democratic candidate Barbara Mikulski. "I felt I was being hustled," says Chavez, who turned down the "bizarre" offer. Mandel says he has "absolutely no recollection" of the incident...
...other hand, Aaron Y. Mandel '97 said some parts of the show were better than others. "The first two guys [Grahm and Kiley] sucked eggs, but the last guy [Zito] was pretty good. Instead of this, the Undergraduate Council should get bigger name performers," Mandel said...