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...skewering hands of New Yorker cartoonist Mick Stevens took up Summers’ troubles in the magazine’s Feb. 14 issue, just a month into the controversy. Three female professors were drawn sitting in a campus cafeteria—the caption: “I hear we’re all getting valentines from Lawrence Summers.” Another cartoon, on the cover of the peachy New York Observer on March 28, depicted a baby Summers in a caldron of boiling water above the headline, “Why Summers Simmers...
He’s pursued a writing career, too, as an author and staff writer on science and medicine for The New Yorker since...
...have looked at that. We haven't been able to figure out if it makes economic sense. There are a lot of things you can do with technology, but whether it's a business is a separate question. There was a cartoon, I think in the New Yorker magazine, of two young computer geeks, and one was holding a newspaper, and he turned to the other and said, "Look at this new invention. Somebody has downloaded the whole page into a user-friendly format." It's a wonderful cartoon...
...Yorker born, raised, and schooled in Brooklyn, where his father worked making extracts for ice cream, Limpert says he wanted to improve the city’s cultural institutions...
DIED. HERBERT WARREN WIND, 88, writer of elegant prose on golf for the New Yorker and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED; of pneumonia; in Bedford, Mass. The author of 14 books, he coined the term Amen Corner to describe three consecutive treacherous, prayer-inducing holes on the back nine at Augusta National, home of the Masters...