I'm impressed with how 'Newsweek's' outstanding staff has continued to put out a lively, well-informed magazine after the departure of their tireless editor, Jon Meacham.

Magazine articles are the new books.

Essentially, we are repositioning the magazine and this is only to reorganize the staff to do more of what we're intending, ... We need editors for photographs and don't need shooters. We will do an increasing number of different kinds of stories that work better for newsweeklies.

The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good.

No one has put in harder training to become a royal bride than the glossy-haired Kate Middleton.

One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that told us we should invade Iraq and that house prices never decline may have been out of the box, but it put us into the ditch. We have been badly misled by people who persuaded us that they understood things we didn't.