[em]Time[/em] Names Richard Stengel M.E.


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The new managing editor of Time magazine will be Richard Stengel, Time Inc. announced this morning. Stengel, currently the head of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, previously held several editing posts at Time and Time.com. The full announcement comes after the jump:

RICHARD STENGEL NAMED MANAGING EDITOR OF Read More

The Painful Reminder: History as Reality Check

Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World , by Eric Foner. Hill & Wang, 233 pages, $24.

“We must forget the past,” Nelson Mandela once said, hoping that a new South Africa would emerge vengeance-free from its crippling history of apartheid. Eric Foner, a distinguished historian at Columbia University, hears that and Read More

Cheney’s Gang Includes Pro-Life Majority in G.O.P.

George W. Bush and Richard Cheney made an unusual pair as they worked the rope line after Mr. Cheney’s anointment in Austin, Texas, last week. Mr. Bush was all motion, smiles and sex: Lee Atwater playing Chicago blues back in the old days. Mr. Cheney tagged along, bald and portly as the Soviet dignitaries that Read More

Suck Up to Sweet Success: Try the ‘Heroism of Flattery’

You’re Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery , by Richard Stengel. Simon & Schuster, 315 pages, $25.

“TK,” to a journalist, means “to come.” It’s a placeholder in draft copy for something to be added later.

The first page of my review copy of Richard Stengel’s history of flattery says “Acknowledgments TK,” the Read More

Naomi Campbell Conquers All, From David Letterman’s Green Room

Supermodels, particularly this one, are not famous for punctuality, but Ms. Campbell was ahead of schedule. Live television makes her nervous. “You’re supposed to say ‘Break a leg,’ not ‘Good luck,’” she cooed into the phone. On the dressing-room sofa sat the hairdresser, waiting his turn with Naomi at the mirror while, like a veteran Read More