The Late Summer Lull
Closed mid-September 1999 · On stands late September 1999
The Front
The Schedule Rescue
ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire premiered August 16th; a short business-page note on its ad rates and what it did for a struggling late-summer schedule
The Cover Everyone Bought
A short note on the season's best-selling celebrity memoir, bought more often than read, and what that says about who this year's fame belongs to
The Foreign File
Dispatch: Dili
A stringer's short dispatch from East Timor in the days after the late-August independence referendum, militia violence spreading faster than the UN mission's mandate
The Back
The Last Reservation of Summer
A short review of the season's hardest-to-get Nantucket dinner reservation, already booked solid into next spring
The Store That Never Closes
A short note on online holiday shopping creeping earlier into the fall, retailers extending web sales weeks ahead of Thanksgiving