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...forced out after a much publicized clash with the paper's new owner, Australian-born press mogul Rupert Murdoch. Last week the media wheel of fortune took an ironic turn. In a shake-up that had the New York City publishing world abuzz, Evans was named publisher of Random House, the nation's largest producer of trade books. Among his first assignments: editing the memoirs of Rupert Murdoch...
...another odd twist for the publishing house, which is owned by S.I. Newhouse's media conglomerate. Evans, 62, was brought in to replace Joni Evans (no relation), one of New York's most high-powered book editors, who joined Random House in 1987. Her reassignment followed by just a year the ouster of the company's longtime chief executive, Robert Bernstein, who was replaced by Alberto Vitale...
After a series of flip-flops at random junctures cost Cornell a shot at an ECAC title last season, consistency will be the key to the Hunt for a Red March this year...
...Random House; 555 pages...
...like Third World slums or sections of Beirut. It should not have a lackluster educational system or an infrastructure that is falling apart. It should not have people being turned away by hospitals because they lack insurance, or dying in the street of drug overdoses, or becoming victims of random crime because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time...