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Hewitt and his confreres ended their campaign against the new show after they were persuaded, as CBS News president Andrew Heyward puts it, that "the train was going to leave the station, and they better not be tied to the tracks." Heyward vows that the new show will be "committed to their values." And Fager takes pains to separate 60 Minutes II from the time-filling rivals that Hewitt railed against. "This is an opportunity to give people more high-quality broadcast journalism," Fager says. "Isn't that a good thing...
...nation's TV households. An average hour of ABC's prime-time schedule was seen by just 6.8%. "A significant number of Americans are watching [the nightly news]," says NBC News president Andrew Lack, "and millions would be disappointed if it weren't there." Says CBS News president Andrew Heyward: "I see prime-time news as a supplement to the evening-news program, not a substitute...
Some students circumvent this situation by (gasp!) lying about their academic affiliation. "I used to just say I want to NYU if I was with people that I could tell would make a big deal of it," admits Emily G. Heyward '01. "I had this terrible experience the summer before I came to Harvard: the people I was with could totally not get over it. All night, they just kept bringing it up in the middle of conversations and calling me 'Harvard'--so annoying...
First-year Heyward notes that she no longer considers attending Harvard such a big deal. "At this point, I'm here, and I'm not so intrigued by the concept of Harvard anymore. It's just my life," she says...
Harvard women say that they don't have it so easy. "Some guys seem to get intimidated by a girl's intelligence," Heyward says. "They get put off by the Harvard girl because it makes her all of a sudden appear scary or intimidating...