[Da Coyote]

Time/Newsweek have become the Yugos of publishing. Cannot they hire some students who got better than a D average? (And boy, getting a D in lib arts is really, really hard. Usually, it takes being a conservative.)

[donna]

Richard Stengel, Time's managing editor, said the 2007 honor went to the Russian leader "for an extraordinary feat of leadership in taking a country that was in chaos and bringing it stability."

Richard Stengel:

- graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1977

- Rhodes Scholar and studied English and history at Christ Church, Oxford

- senior writer and essayist at Time, covered the 1988 and 1996 presidential campaigns, wrote for The New Yorker, The New Republic, and the New York Times

- collaborated with Nelson Mandela on Mandela's bestselling autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom

- senior advisor and chief speechwriter for Bill Bradley, who ran for the Democratic nomination for the 2000 presidential election