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When journalism's brightest luminaries gathered at a black-tie dinner last month to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, there was one conspicuous absence: the school's dean. The university had been unable to fill that prominent post ever since former Newsweek Editor in Chief Osborn Elliott resigned two years ago. Last week Columbia President Michael Sovern finally announced a successor: Joan Konner, 57, a veteran television-documentary producer and a Columbia trustee since 1978. "She's been a very serious possibility from the beginning," said Sovern. "We didn't want anyone...
...told his disciples. That was in 1979, and since then, they have worked a quiet revolution. By exposing the dusty tenets of American liberalism to some fresh ideas and empirical questioning, Peters and his followers have helped rescue it from the clutches of interest groups, entrenched bureaucratic thinking and post-Viet Nam neuroses. Now, in Tilting at Windmills, Peters offers an amiable tract designed to elucidate what he jocularly refers to as "the one true faith...
Most important to insiders, however, is the question of what Brown and Wintour ultimately want. Wintour is said to prize the top spot at American ! Vogue or perhaps even Liberman's post as editorial director. Brown's long-term interests, on the other hand, seem to lie outside fashion journalism. "She has a fascination for Hollywood that has not begun to be exhausted," says Vanity Fair Contributor Dominick Dunne. For now, however, both women claim that it is challenge enough to run their shops efficiently and try to make it home to their children by dinnertime...
Although Tribe and the committee would not discuss their deliberations, Bok said that he would look for administrative ability in a candidate for the post, but not necessarily prior experience...
...also said he would consider departing with Law School tradition and appoint a professor from outside the Law School to take the dean's post...