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- When we decided late last week to put Nelson Mandela's visit
- to the U.S. on our cover, three of the journalists who
- scrambled to get the story were newly arrived college interns.
- Michelle Ray, an editor for the University of California at
- Santa Barbara Daily Nexus, assembled background research for
- the Nation section. Otto Pohl, a student at Cornell,
- photographed the parade in lower Manhattan on Wednesday, then
- joined assistant picture editor Richard Boeth at the light
- table to edit the pictures. On Thursday night Robin Bennefield,
- who has been managing editor of the Swarthmore Phoenix, headed
- out to Yankee Stadium to cover the rally. Says Ray: "I was
- surprised that the people at TIME reacted to a big news story
- much as we do at my school paper: hurried, nervous, intense."
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- Ray, Pohl and Bennefield are among a dozen students working
- at TIME this summer. For many years we have invited some of the
- brightest U.S. college juniors to Manhattan to learn how we put
- out the magazine -- and sometimes to come back full time.
- Managing editor Henry Muller, Stanford '68, started his career
- as a summer intern at our sister magazine LIFE. More recently,
- Time Warner has added internships for graduate students as
- well, to expose them to all the facets of our publishing
- enterprises.
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- The interns are often surprised to be given important
- assignments as soon as they arrive. Naznina Bhatia, an M.B.A.
- candidate at Harvard, joined our London office this summer as
- one of the interns assisting Robert Jurgrau, business manager
- for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Says Jurgrau: "They're
- helping me revise our strategic plan, and they'll be coming
- along on a visit to our Amsterdam office next month." Brazilian
- Mauro Vaisman, a journalism major at the University of
- Missouri-Columbia, is researching international news stories.
- Says he: "I thought I would come here and maybe make coffee.
- But from my first day I have been treated like a member of the
- family and have been given a lot of responsibility. This place
- is a school! I am learning every second." Vaisman has just
- discovered one reason we all love journalism: the lifelong
- education it offers. No wonder he feels like a member of the
- family.
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- -- Louis A. Weil III
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