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Summers has made himself accessible to students, but only a handful—those lucky enough to be passing through a dining hall when he stopped to eat or those fortunate enough to be members of an organization whose opinion he chose to solicit. The vast majority of undergraduates have had no contact with Summers, nor will they unless he chooses to start hosting events that are made public in advance and open to any student who wants to attend. Taking an accurate pulse of the University will require that Summers avail himself to the student body as a whole...
...Civil War ended 136 years ago this month. Why are we still fighting? I spent a few weeks rambling around the South trying to figure it out, and saw that most of us aren't fighting. The vast majority have long since moved on. "The real ideology of the contemporary South is economic development, not the Confederacy," Wilson says. But for "an intensely committed ideological group," the right-wing politics of the '80s and '90s--smaller government, state's rights, the racially charged dismantling of welfare--echoes the old rebel yell. And for poor whites who missed the boat...
...staff: Sullivan and one assistant. The quarterly magazine has 8,000 subscribers and generally runs between 50 and 60 pages. Sullivan uses free-lance writers--columnists and essayists, mostly--who are paid between $200 and $500 per article. "We're not in the news because of our influence or vast number of subscribers. We're an issue because we're a stick liberals can use to beat their enemies," says Sullivan, 38, who seems not entirely opposed to such exploitation. "I guess no publicity is bad publicity," he says...
Unlike Fuji, which views the Net as just another outlet for its retailers, Kodak is making a concerted effort to grab online photo consumers. To Kodak's eye, info imaging, as it has dubbed the digital space, remains more of an opportunity than threat, representing a vast market worth $225 billion, catering to everyone from real estate brokers to doctors who want to incorporate digital photos into their work. "Images," says Patricia Russo, a former Lucent executive who has just joined Kodak as its president, "are the most powerful form of communication...
Publishing abhors a vacuum, and 2001 has been unfolding around a doozy of emptiness. Here is a vast new worldwide audience of readers galvanized by J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, and no new Harry Potter installment will appear this year to slake the pent-up cravings of the boy wizard's devotees. Millions of people bereft! What's worse, many more millions of dollars unspent at bookstores...