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Forty years ago this spring, former Harvard president James B. Conant' 14 graced the covers of both Time and Newsweek. But this is a different era, and it was jarring to see President Neil L. Rudenstine on the cover of Newsweek last week...
Even more jarring was the picture of President Rudenstine that the magazine decided to portray. Rather than depicting the tanned, well-rested Rudenstine who now occupies Massachusetts Hall, Newsweek searched as hard as it could--and ultimately acquired--unflattering photos which make Rudenstine appear, to say the least, severly haggard...
...Newsweek do this? The magazine was working on a cover-story about exhaustion. And since the president had recently taken a three-month sabatical to recover from fatigue, its editors likely saw in Rudenstine their perfect cover...
...Newsweek fails to pass muster on its content. At last Friday's Freshman Dance, the President looked stronger than he had for a long time. Tanned and smiling, he spent an hour meeting students and dancing elegantly through the Union. That Rudenstine is back made neither an impression on the Newsweek editors or the photographer they hired to take a picture of him last Friday. The cover photo of the president proved once again that image is not reality...
...that the United States now has but two weekly news magazines (and fading ones, at that). But it would be irresponsible to disregard the sloth and ineptitude of the Newsweek team, considering its unfamiliarity with exhaustion...