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By Matt Byrne, Town Correspondent Melrose High School was ranked one of the best public high schools in the United States by Newsweek magazine , coming in at 832 in the top 1,000. "The recent announcement from Newsweek magazine, is a reflection of the commitment and dedication of the leadership, faculty, and staff over the past year," said school principal Dan Richards, in a statement issued by the office of Melrose Mayor Robert Dolan. "As a team, we have come together with a common vision focusing on 'What we teach' and 'How we teach.' This vision continues to...

By Matt Byrne, Town Correspondent Melrose High School was ranked one of the best public high schools in the United States by Newsweek magazine , coming in at 832 in the top 1,000. "The recent announcement from Newsweek magazine, is a reflection of the commitment and dedication of the leadership, faculty, and staff over the past year," said school principal Dan Richards, in a statement issued by the office of Melrose Mayor Robert Dolan. "As a team, we have come together with a common vision focusing on 'What we teach' and 'How we teach.' This vision continues to...

Back in November, Newsweek and Daily Beast editor Tina Brown visited Boston's Hill Holliday for the advertising and marketing agency's content conference. While she was there, she struck up a friendship with Hill Holliday execs Lance Jensen and Karen Kaplan, and told them that Newsweek had plans for a special "Mad Men"-themed issue to celebrate the show's 2012 return. Gensen, who is Hill Holliday's Chief Creative Officer, had some ideas for Brown, speficially that all of the advertising in the special issue should reflect the time period of the show.

State of the Union. Topics: Campaign 2012; Democratic agenda in Congress; Jobs and the Economy; same-sex marriage; Mitt Romney's Liberty University Speech. Guest: Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois; Senator John Cornyn of Texas; Governor John Hickenlooper of Colorado; Gary Bauer, chairman of the Campaign for Working Families; Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council. 9 a.m. (CNN) Fox News Sunday. Topics: The US & Saudi governments successfully coordinate a covert operation against a terrorist plot originating in Yemen; President Obama's decision to endorse same-sex marriage.

The latest Newsweek cover contains a ghostly sight: a computer-generated image of a stylish Princess Diana, as she might look now, walking with Kate Middleton. The article inside was written by Diana biographer and longtime provocateur Tina Brown. She’s also Newsweek’s editor-in-chief, having taken over after her online publication, the Daily Beast, merged late last year with the decades-old publication. “What would she have been like?’’ Brown writes of Diana, who would have turned 50 on Friday, nearly 14 years after her death in a Paris car crash.

NEW YORK -- Peter Prescott, an award-winning book critic who wrote for Newsweek for two decades, died Friday. He was 68. He died of liver disease complicated by diabetes, said his wife, Anne. Mr. Prescott, who won the George Polk Award for criticism in 1978, worked for nine years as an editor at E. P. Dutton before reviewing books for Women's Wear Daily, Look, and Newsweek. His father was the principal daily book critic for The New York Times between 1942 and 1966. Mr. Prescott was a native of New York.

WASHINGTON — Audio equipment millionaire Sidney Harman, who bought Newsweek magazine last year and oversaw its merger with The Daily Beast, has died in Washington. He was 92. Mr. Harman died Tuesday night of complications from leukemia, according to a family statement posted on The Daily Beast website. He learned of his illness about a month ago. “He died in Washington, D.C., a city he loved and supported in so many ways, surrounded by his wife and children,’’ the family wrote.

NEW YORK - Amid Capeci, an art director who helped to redesign Rolling Stone and Newsweek as they struggled to reconnect with subscribers in the Internet Age, died last Tuesday in New York. He was 50. The cause was melanoma, said his wife, Amy Conway. Mr. Capeci was the design director of Newsweek in the turbulent years before it merged in 2010 with The Daily Beast, an online journal of commentary and news analysis. His crisp, elegant redefining of the magazine's graphic vocabulary - its logo, its typefaces, and the many...

BRATTLEBORO - Rod Gander, a former chief of correspondents at Newsweek who went on to the presidency of Marlboro College and to serve in the Vermont Senate, died of heart failure Monday, his family said. He was 76. A native of Bronxville, N.Y., Mr. Gander spent most of his career at Newsweek, where he was a force behind its coverage of President Kennedy's assassination in 1963, said Osborne Elliot, who led the magazine during the 1960s and 1970s and served as dean at the Columbia School of Journalism.

State of the Union. Topics: Campaign 2012; Democratic agenda in Congress; Jobs and the Economy; same-sex marriage; Mitt Romney's Liberty University Speech. Guest: Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois; Senator John Cornyn of Texas; Governor John Hickenlooper of Colorado; Gary Bauer, chairman of the Campaign for Working Families; Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council. 9 a.m. (CNN) Fox News Sunday. Topics: The US & Saudi governments successfully coordinate a covert operation against a terrorist plot originating in Yemen; President Obama's decision to endorse same-sex marriage.

Back in November, Newsweek and Daily Beast editor Tina Brown visited Boston's Hill Holliday for the advertising and marketing agency's content conference. While she was there, she struck up a friendship with Hill Holliday execs Lance Jensen and Karen Kaplan, and told them that Newsweek had plans for a special "Mad Men"-themed issue to celebrate the show's 2012 return. Gensen, who is Hill Holliday's Chief Creative Officer, had some ideas for Brown, speficially that all of the advertising in the special issue should reflect the time period of the show.

NEW YORK - Amid Capeci, an art director who helped to redesign Rolling Stone and Newsweek as they struggled to reconnect with subscribers in the Internet Age, died last Tuesday in New York. He was 50. The cause was melanoma, said his wife, Amy Conway. Mr. Capeci was the design director of Newsweek in the turbulent years before it merged in 2010 with The Daily Beast, an online journal of commentary and news analysis. His crisp, elegant redefining of the magazine's graphic vocabulary - its logo, its typefaces, and the many intangibles of visual design that...

WASHINGTON - Roger Kennedy, the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History who transformed the stodgy repository often called "America's attic" into a vibrant display that enshrined pop-culture memorabilia even as it confronted some of the most shameful moments in the country's past, died yesterday in Rockville, Md. He was 85. He had melanoma, said his wife, Frances Hefren Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy, who served as director of the National Park Service after leaving the history museum in 1992, took an unusual path to the top of a major American...

The hotel maid accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her in a Manhattan hotel room shattered her silence Sunday, saying in a published report that the former International Monetary Fund leader grabbed and attacked her as she implored him to stop. "I said, 'Sir, stop this. I don't want to lose my job.' He said, 'You're not going to lose your job,"' Nafissatou Diallo told Newsweek in a cover story posted online Sunday. ABC News said it will broadcast an interview with her on three of its programs Monday.

The latest Newsweek cover contains a ghostly sight: a computer-generated image of a stylish Princess Diana, as she might look now, walking with Kate Middleton. The article inside was written by Diana biographer and longtime provocateur Tina Brown. She’s also Newsweek’s editor-in-chief, having taken over after her online publication, the Daily Beast, merged late last year with the decades-old publication. “What would she have been like?’’ Brown writes of Diana, who would have turned 50 on Friday, nearly 14 years after her death in a Paris car crash.

WASHINGTON — Audio equipment millionaire Sidney Harman, who bought Newsweek magazine last year and oversaw its merger with The Daily Beast, has died in Washington. He was 92. Mr. Harman died Tuesday night of complications from leukemia, according to a family statement posted on The Daily Beast website. He learned of his illness about a month ago. “He died in Washington, D.C., a city he loved and supported in so many ways, surrounded by his wife and children,’’ the family wrote.

NEW YORK - The hotel maid accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her in a Manhattan hotel room broke her silence yesterday, saying in a published report that the former International Monetary Fund leader grabbed and attacked her as she implored him to stop. "I said, ‘Sir, stop this. I don't want to lose my job.' He said, ‘You're not going to lose your job,' " Nafissatou Diallo told Newsweek in a cover story posted online. ABC News said it will broadcast an interview with her on three of its programs today.