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...served as a tank crewman for 3 1/2 years, then moved to the reserves, where he was a tank commander. About 10 years ago, he joined a civil-affairs unit and worked for the rest of the time as a policeman or a summer ranger in national parks like the one in Gettysburg, Pa. He would have loved to work at Gettysburg full-time, says his ranger colleague Tim Sorber. But a National Park Service rule sets the maximum age for law-enforcement rangers at 35. Chris was already 45 when he started part-time, though he regularly passed...
...this is true, if you keep in mind that the journalist's definition of important is "important to journalists." USA Today is not in an urban hot spot. In 2001 it moved (along with corporate parent Gannett) to spacious new digs, complete with fitness club, in the remote office-park suburbs of Washington. Its comparatively quiet newsroom culture doesn't make for juicy media gossip. Rather, it just discreetly makes its way into the hands, and consciousness, of more Americans than any other newspaper. Says Mark Halperin, political director for ABC News: "The media elites in Washington and New York...
...Today may never play as well on Park Avenue. It is not the erudite, exhaustive--sometimes exhausting--Times, but neither is it trying to be, any more than CNN Headline News is trying to be the PBS News Hour. And for all the praise USA Today has got for its longer investigative stories--that is, for being like "respectable" newspapers--reaffirming its commitment to accessible news is just as laudable. The paper helped broaden the definition of news beyond the preoccupations of elites: the lead story in its Money section is more likely to be about rising cable rates than...
...sausage race at Miller Park, home of the Milwaukee Brewers, turned ugly when the Pittsburgh Pirates' RANDALL SIMON thwacked the Italian sausage, Mandy Block, 19, with a bat as she passed by the dugout. She and an adjacent hot dog toppled over, but neither was hurt. Simon, who was suspended for three games and fined $2,432, apologized, but TV sports and news shows were grateful for a video they could replay endlessly...
...dedicated himself to what he called the "nonprofit world": building low-income housing at the Enterprise Foundation; serving on Harvard University's managing council; and, most famously, chairing the New York Public Library, which he helped bring back from financial ruin, along the way restoring Bryant Park, the jewel of greenery behind the library's main building in midtown Manhattan. In his private life, his third marriage, to Marian Sulzberger Dryfoos, of the family that has published the New York Times since 1896, was a true marriage of spirits...