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...media's obsession with Bill Clinton is like rubbernecking at a car accident," observed a woman from Simpsonville, S.C. "Nice people aren't supposed to do that." A Las Vegas reader asked, "If you want Clinton to disappear, why don't you stop following him around?" And a New Yorker, who felt that TIME will never quit Clinton cold turkey, wrote, "I can only hope your next Clinton cover headline will take the incredible-shrinking theme to its logical conclusion: 'The Invisible...
Paula Sperling, 56, a New York City saleswoman, prides herself on being well organized. Whenever she has to schedule an appointment at New York University's Breast Imaging Center for her annual mammogram, she usually calls three to four weeks in advance. But the native New Yorker was surprised to learn last December that the next available opening wasn't until sometime in April. Sperling reminded the office staff that she has a family history of breast cancer. "Three or four months could mean the difference between a tumor that's localized and one that's spread into the lymph...
Professor of Photography, Becher and his wife Hilla ran a very small but influential class at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf. Among their other students were Thomas Ruff, Petra Wunderlich, and Andreas Gursky, who was recently featured in a profile by Calvin Tomkins in The New Yorker (January 22, 2001). The Bechers pioneered a type of detached objectivity in their photography. Despite their preference for black and white, Hofer, like many of their other students, has turned to color. This shift relieved Hoferof the burden of developing: in a 1994 interview in the Journal of Contemporary Art, she stated: "I have...
...story--written by The New Yorker's Anthony Hiss '63--credits Bartley's, then called the Harvard Spa Luncheonette, with alleviating "The Great Hamburg Blight" that had previously plagued the Square...
...These pointed attacks on collegiate athletics have drawn national attention. The book was featured in the January 7 New York Times Education Life supplement and the Jan. 22 issue of The New Yorker. Shulman recently fielded questions on ESPN's website, and the book has garnered praise from around the academic community...