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1. NY Post
With the breakup of Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt, the gossip mags were sure to be buzzing this week. Each gave us a little something about the couple's Anguilla getaway but none of the current offerings nailed the fact that it would be their last one as husband and wife. People devotes most of its cover and a good chunk of inside pages to the stories of tsunami survivors. Though the tales are moving, they feel a bit dated, after all the coverage major news outlets have given the natural disaster in the past two weeks. There is little else in the current issue that is compelling. A spread on the best New Year's bashes also feels old, as does the year that was for Ben Affleck vs. Jennifer Lopez. (Let's give up the "Benifer" ghost already!). People does score with some good jailhouse pics of Martha Stewart ??” in spectacles, no less. But the story on Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston loving it up in the Caribbean also disappoints, given its lack of juicy photos. People did, however, break the separation story on its Web site Friday night. Us did a better job with the "Brad & Jen Holiday Vacation," having gotten its hands on some good photos of the celebrity couple and their friends Courtney Cox and David Arquette. There's a pic of a shirtless Brad Pitt shooting hoops that's sure to be a crowd pleaser with the ladies, especially now that he's back on the market. Us lays off the tsunami disaster, except for a spread on Victoria's Secret model Petra Nemcova. MORE ONLINE
2. NY Metro
Was your decision to quit a New Year??™s resolution? Not exactly. Last year, I installed as a screen saver a poem by Joseph Campbell that begins "We must be willing to get rid of the life we??™ve planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us." Every time I logged in, I had to read this damn poem. And it seemed to mock me. Would you recommend Cond?© Nast as a place to work? Absolutely. The caricaturish aspects of the place pertain to a very small part of it, and even there it??™s hardly an imposed code of behavior. Wasn??™t this job an "appointment for life? " Back in ??™94, did you think you??™d get out of it alive? Well, I don??™t remember entering the job with a death wish. MORE ONLINE
3. NY Metro
No drinking on the job! And no celebrating, either! Another rock-and-roll perk??”the drunken late-night dinner "on Jann"??”has gone by the wayside at Wenner Media, home of Rolling Stone and Us Weekly. Company president Kent Brownridge sent around a pre-holiday memo saying that come January 1, the company wouldn??™t pay for anything but nice sober breakfasts or lunches. Meals "should not be treated as an ???entertainment vehicle??™ but should be used as an ???access meal??™ " and deployed by "decision makers only," it reads, before summing up: "The following meals are not eligible business expenses: meals with the purpose of saying ???thank you??™ or meant to ???celebrate??™ something." MORE ONLINE
4. NY Metro
It surprised those who didn??™t know her well that Sarah Jewler, the managing editor of this magazine, who died last week at age 56, from a rare blood disorder, had spent a few years on a commune in the early seventies, playing music, living off the land, having plenty of the sort of fun that people in their twenties like to have. But the way Sarah always described her role there was: "I was the managing editor of a commune." Another way of saying this is that she was a communard??”she loved playing a central role in a group enterprise. But she didn??™t need the spotlight. As a drummer (she played in the eighties downtown orchestra the Ordinaires, and countless jams), she was the opposite of Keith Moon. She liked to get in a groove and stay in the background, beaming as she played. In the office, she was practical, methodical, indomitable, a cheerful comrade, and sometimes fierce gatekeeper. "I??™m a soldier," she said about her work life. And it was true. She arrived every morning (armed most often with a corn muffin she??™d consume for most of the day, neat wedge after neat wedge) ready to go to war. In the office, living close to the land meant sharing a foxhole with editors from Jane Amsterdam, Clay Felker, and Peter Kaplan at Manhattan, inc. to Jon Larsen at the Voice (possibly her most hazardous post) to Kurt Andersen, Caroline Miller, and Adam Moss at New York. She knew she was going to get shot at, and didn??™t mind shooting back. She loved being the voice of reason, questioning, applying her common sense, making sure people had their feet on the ground. She loved the magazine, the sitcom drama of it, the frenzied weekly pace. (She would have rolled her eyes, as Miller said, at the idea of someone important at the magazine dying on deadline.) MORE ONLINE
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