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...their lives, chronicling their troubles and defining their desires has become fiercely competitive. American Girl, Teen Beat and Tiger Beat have the younger age bracket sewn up. The median age of a Tiger Beat reader is 13, but girls as young as eight are snatching up the magazine. "Our readership is getting younger," says Louise Barile, editor of Tiger Beat. "It just goes back to girls' growing up faster. When they begin to get interested in boys, they graduate to other magazines...
Danilewitz is dealing in fictions. No such anti-Semitic policy or program exists at The Crimson, nor have we ever wished for one. In selecting among the 43 applicants for the position of bi-weekly columnist, we sought responsible students whose work would engage our diverse readership and challenge them to consider new ideas and new perspectives. There were simply more qualified candidates than Danilewitz is--including the co-chair of Harvard Students for Israel and another active member of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel. We did not employ quotas in our selection of columnists, and we did not reject anyone because...
...been 20 years since John Irving's fourth novel, The World According to Garp, made its author famous. Not only did the book attract a massive readership, but it also inspired a cult following and such extra-literary phenomena as Garp T shirts and fan clubs. Irving's ninth novel, A Widow for One Year (Random House; 537 pages; $27.95), is unlikely to generate a similar hullabaloo. That is not because Irving's storytelling skills have waned; his new novel is in many respects his best since Garp. But over the past two decades, serious fiction has been elbowed ever...
...then should The Crimson and society in general best ensure the diversity of ideas, given that focusing on diversity of backgrounds is clearly not the solution? Regardless, the Crimson executives in question owe a collective apology to the Harvard Jewish community and to The Crimson's readership at large...
...shell out $19.95 for a yearly subscription. Kinsley, the former New Republic editor (and current TIME essayist), reports that 17,000 subscribers had signed up by midweek, a big falloff in audience but a necessary step, he argues, if the Webzine is to be a self-sustaining business. "Readership is going to plummet at first," Kinsley admits. "But you have to bite the bullet...