By Megan McCarthy 12/27/11 6:49pm

The New York Times

The Times Selling Regional Media Group for $143 M.

The New York Times has announced that it will sell its Regional Media Group to Florida-based Halifax Media Holdings, LLC for $143 million in cash. The Regional Media Group consists of 16 regional newspapers including titles like the News Chief of Winter Haven, Florida and Thibodaux, Louisiana’s Daily Comet. The back-of-the-envelope math suggests that each paper is worth just shy of $9 million apiece, or about two years of consulting work from outgoing Times CEO Janet Robinson. Read More

By Stephen Jay Gould 12/17/01 12:00am

Front Page 5

Professor of Zoology, Geology,

Invertebrate Paleontology and Biology at New York

University and Harvard University

The topic of Sept. 10, 2001, sticks too close for any comfort, especially given the eeriness of two numerological coincidences. First, it happened to be my 60th birthday. I spent the day (in a meeting, but who’s complaining?) Read More

By William Norwich 10/11/99 12:00am

Beefcake : How Bob Mizer Pioneered Male Crotch-Shots

A good-looking Nova Scotian teenager named Neil O’Hara follows his dream to Hollywood. Just a few minutes off the bus, he meets Bob Mizer near Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Los Angeles. Mizer tells him that for $5 all a guy has to do is pose for a few pictures around a pool. Mr. O’Hara accepts Read More