'Funny you should ask for that': higher education as a market.
In the early 1970s I went to the United Kingdom to pursue postgraduate studies. My time at Cambridge was happier than that of Manning Clark at Oxford in the 1930s, but there was one source of minor irritation. The local shopkeepers exhibited a combination of servility towards some of...

How Details magazine turned me into a rebel consumer.
I wanted to be a Details man. I had recognized my need for bee-stung lips, carefully unkempt hair, a washboard stomach, baggy Versace suits, tattoos--you get the picture. I wanted to pal around with other young sophisticates dressed just as rakishly as I, chatting about the latest trend in...

The Abject of our Desires.
I remember once chuckling outside, our local newsagent at the leader-board headline for one of those interchangeable women's magazines -- Closmo, Cleopolitan, whatever. `Special Sealed Section,' the blurb enticingly began. `Our Guide to the Ultimate Orgasm!' What a commercial blunder! Surely, I mused, a cannier editor would...

Value-free Harvard.
Thirty years ago this spring, Harvard members of Students for a Democratic Society seized and occupied University Hall, the home to the administrative offices of the college. Storming the building, they forcibly ejected Harvard deans and demanded that the university abolish its ROTC programs. A battery of tear gas-toting...

Curry plans to reshape Emerge.
A lot has happened at Emerge--from the death of its founding editor, Wilmer Ames, to its relocation from New York City to Washington, D.C. (where it joins the other properties of its majority owner, Black Entertainment Television). Emerge's new editor in chief, George Curry--who joined the 150,000--circulation magazine in...

A life of books: the story of DW Thorpe Pty Ltd 1921-1987.
Nicholson, Joyce Thorpe, and Thorpe, Daniel Wrixon A life of books: the story of DW Thorpe Pty Ltd 1921-1087 Middle Park, Vic: Courtyard Press, 2000. 326p A$49.95 cloth ISBN 0646396110 JOYCE NICHOLSON BEGINS THIS BOOK WITH A PERSONAL TOUCH: it is `a tribute to my dad', DW...

Sale of RFT could help St. Louis magazine.
Harper Barnes, the genial editor of St. Louis magazine, sees the sale of the Riverfront Times as a boon for his monthly. The magazine will hire 11 full-time employees instead of having to share all but the managing editor with the RFT. The terms of the sale with New Times...

NEWSWEEK MEDIA LEAD SHEET/February 5, 2007 Issue (on newsstands Monday, January 29).
COVER: "Black Hawk Down" (p. 26). An international reporting team- including Baghdad Bureau Chief Babak Dehghanpisheh, Miami Bureau Chief Arian Campo-Flores, Senior White House Correspondent Richard Wolffe and National Correspondent Dan Ephron-reports on the lives of 12 soldiers killed in the crash of a Black Hawk helicopter last week...

Entrepreneur Magazine Spotlights Web 2.0 Features Business Owners Need to Connect to Customers and Employees.
IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The more collaborative features defining the Internet experience today are changing the ways businesses interact with customers and employees -- and entrepreneurs can't afford to miss them. In the February issue now on newsstands, Entrepreneur magazine reveals the Web 2.0 features entrepreneurs need...

Entrepreneur Magazine Identifies Adaptability, Self-Awareness and Purposefulness Among Top Skills for 21st Century Leader.
IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- A successful leader and business owner in today's workplace must demonstrate adaptability, self-awareness and purposefulness, as revealed by Entrepreneur magazine's in-depth look at leadership for the 21st century. In the February issue now on newsstands, the magazine helps entrepreneurs focus on these and...