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...Harvard Book Review, one of about a half-dozen campus publications founded this year, distributed its first issue last Tuesday...
While none of these potential solutions will be a panacea to all circulation problems, let me leave you with a little perspective. The Crimson's circulation department is a half-dozen full-time students who, in their spare time, oversee the door-to-door delivery of more than 5,500 newspapers every day. Few comparable college newspapers attempt anything on this scale. The Princetonian only delivers to subscribers and the Yale Daily News merely leaves a bunch of papers at a central spot in the residential colleges, in spite of both papers having a readership an order of magnitude smaller...
They are not alone. A clutch of new satellite-based services from a half-dozen similar corporate alliances is launching into orbit. They are likely to turn the earth's lower atmosphere into a space jam of communications links promising to keep us in touch--anytime, anywhere. The systems rely on a new version of an old (at least for the aerospace business) and proven technology...
...fully aware that quarterback may be the toughest position in sports to fill. However, how does a team go from electing to spend $22 million on a player to placing him third on the depth chart a half-dozen games later...
Growing up in Valmeyer, Rusty Weston was almost unnoticeable. A former schoolmate describes him as a "basic farm guy." In the Valmeyer high school yearbook, Weston posed with other members of Future Farmers of America. Looking over the yearbook, his principal, H.R. Baum, said, "There would be a half-dozen others I'd suspect of this before...