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...only made me pick my appropriately named torture. I had the options of "interval training" (intervals of two weeks, I hoped), "Pike's Peak" (for those who exercise in hiking boots instead of Reeboks), "random" (for my house assignment), "manual control" (for Gov. concentrators), "roller coaster" (the machine does a 360 while you climb), "lunar landing" (so you can space out while exercising) or "steady climb" (for underachievers...
...very random," says Marta K. Taylor '92, a chemistry concentrator from Lowell House. "I just like the way it looks...
Industry insiders speculated that Joni Evans, 48, had been fired because of disappointing sales for several recent Random House books, among them Donald Trump's Surviving at the Top and Shana Alexander's biography of Bess Myerson, When She Was Bad. The principals denied that scenario: Random House expects to have "a record year in profits" Vitale said, with 18 best sellers. Friends say Evans felt crushed under the administrative responsibilities of her job and wanted to return to editing. She not only will continue at Random House but will have the cachet of her own imprint...
Evans, who has written several books of his own, comes to Random House at a time when hard-pressed publishers are trying to compete by paying advances that frequently top $1 million -- and in many cases suffering big losses when % the books don't become blockbusters. Known for his free-spending ways, Evans does not seem likely to shy away from these battles. But that could put him in conflict with chairman Vitale, who has a reputation for paying close attention to the bottom line...
...interested in politics and history, and he is expected to emphasize high-profile journalistic books. "I'll get a chance to repeat the kind of thing I did at the Sunday Times," he says. But within hours of being appointed, he was on the phone with some of Random House's top fiction authors -- among them E.L. Doctorow, William Styron and Norman Mailer -- to reassure them of his "passionate interest" in their work. He was calling other authors as well, in an effort to woo them to Random House. "He has a huge amount of personal prestige in the publishing...