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Senior editor JANICE C. SIMPSON got to travel exactly nowhere while she oversaw this week's profile of Frank Gehry as well as the cover story on reality-television programming. In fact, she barely had time to leave her desk. "Putting both stories in the magazine," says Simpson, "reflects the crazy and endlessly exciting mix of important art and trivial pursuit that makes up our cultural life at the turn of this century...
After the Rome broadcast, Russert continued working behind the scenes, leading NBC's weeklong broadcasts from South America, Australia and China in 1986 and 1987. In 1990, he oversaw the production of a prime-time news special, "A Day in the Life of President Bush...
...Will Service Still Stink?," Judith Martin, a.k.a. Miss Manners, politely gives us the answer: Yes, but not in the ways you think. At least advertising will become more interesting, predicts Jay Chiat, who made his name with groundbreaking ads for Apple and Nike. Business editor Bill Saporito, who oversaw half this package, mediated a sometimes testy debate about whether the Dow will ever hit 50,000. On one side: Robert Shiller, author of the just published Irrational Exuberance. On the other side: Kevin Hassett and James Glassman, who made a splash last year with their book...
...making van runs to pick up players from the airport while getting paid almost nothing as an intern, he was named Advance Scout for the 1997 and 1998 seasons. He wrote scouting reports for each regular and postseason series, performed the background work for various roster moves, and oversaw the Indians' professional scouting system...
Sanctions on Iraq have been in place ever since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. But long after the American-led coalition expelled Iraqi troops from Kuwait, and long after U.N. inspections oversaw the dismantling of Hussein's nuclear arsenal, the sanctions are still in place. To U.S. policy makers, they are clearly warranted. Hussein is a ruthless dictator who will jump at the first opportunity to rebuild his arsenal. Something must be done to keep him in check. If the sanctions are hurting the Iraqi people, they say, this is only due to Hussein's own belligerence. They...