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...report on the lives of Harvard alumni. “Highly educated, sophisticated, and wealthy, the Harvard audience is a lucrative niche for any advertiser,” Kim wrote in a 2004 memo about the magazine. At the time, he said that the circulation would near 100,000. When reached by The Crimson, Kim and Richard Bradley, the magazine’s executive editor, would not comment on the upcoming deal. Sandow Media, based out of Boca Raton, Fl., recently bought the money magazine Worth, and also owns the plastic surgery-oriented magazine NewBeauty. Sandow Media?...
...negotiate with the Dalai Lama, and that the Olympic torch not be carried through Tibet. “The Olympic torch cannot pass through Tibet if we are treated like we are,” said Kalsang Namgual, who immigrated from Tibet to India around 1990 and currently lives near Boston. “What does Tibet want? Like everyone else, we just want a good life.” Linda A. Mancini, an American who helps runs a Buddhist center in Brookline and has been coming to the vigils once a week, voiced her support for the Tibetans...
...what are we learning as the April 22 primary draws near and Pennsylvanians decide which candidate to support? For one thing, those economic anxieties are back in full force. Every grumble of discontent heard over the winter months at other campaign stops has echoes in Pennsylvania, and Democrats appear invigorated. Since November, some 300,000 voters filed new registrations as Democrats to vote in this contest...
...corollary cautionary tale in which substance-abusing guests checked into an actual rehab facility under the care of Loveline's Dr. Drew Pinsky. As trashy as its concept was, Rehab's first season was surprisingly earnest, decent and, well, sober, especially as it chronicled the struggle and near breakdowns of former Taxi star Jeff Conaway. Being treated simply as people rather than as stars (or pseudo stars) seemed for some like the first step to sobriety. Celebrity Rehab was as much rehab from celebrity as it was rehab for celebrities...
Writers are sensitive souls--generally intelligent and hardworking but easily bruised. Treat them right, though, and you will be rewarded. Writers shape words into luminous sentences and the sentences into exquisitely crafted paragraphs. They weave the paragraphs together into a near perfect article, essay or review. Then their writing--their baby--is ripped untimely from their computers (well, maybe only a couple of weeks overdue) and turned over to editors. These are idiots, most of them, and brutes, with tin ears, the aesthetic sensitivity of insects, deeply held erroneous beliefs about your topic and a maddening conviction that any article...