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...college-seniors-to-be and invited them to spend the summer in New York City helping produce our magazines and, we hope, learning about life, work and the real world of journalism. The six interns at TIME in this year's crop are midway through their nine-week stint. If the past is any guide, the summer will be humid with surprises...
...Peters collects simple lessons and weaves them into a political creed. From his childhood in Charleston, W. Va., he developed an ideal of community values based on a willingness to share society's burdens. From his Army service, he picked up a lasting disdain for class distinctions. And a stint as a Peace Corps administrator left him with a sharp eye for the foibles of Government bureaucracies...
Whatever outsiders may say, both Brown and Wintour are securely established within the Conde Nast firmament. Each reportedly receives more than $200,000 a year, plus a $25,000 clothing allowance and plenty of pampering. During her stint in London, Wintour's husband David Shaffer, a prominent child psychiatrist, remained in New York City; the company paid for regular Concorde flights so they could visit each other. And some say Newhouse launched Traveler, Conde Nast's newest magazine, so that Brown's husband Editor Harold Evans would have something to do in New York...
Visiting Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree, who is Black, will return to practice next year after a three-year stint teaching criminal procedure and prison law. And Professor of Law Christopher Edley--one of the Law School's two Black tenured professors--is expected to join Gov. Michael S. Dukakis in Washington, if Dukakis wins the presidency...
...straight games. "There's always a suspicion of mysticism and inevitability. If you really believe something is going to happen and your opponent gets to thinking the same thing, it's pretty powerful. Bad streaks especially -- slumps -- have a kind of life of their own." In an unsuccessful stint in St. Louis, Wilkinson tried to persuade the Cardinals to compete against themselves. "If you can do that, you erase the scoreboard," he says. But it does not always work...