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May. 2nd, 2004 05:05 pm
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Google's all over the Times today. Amy Harmon, in Week in Review, asks if Google will "be able to adhere to its famous corporate ethos, 'don't do evil.'" Apparently not famous enough to quote correctly. In the business section, Alex Berenson says the SEC filing is "long on platitudes (one section begins 'Don't Be Evil') and short on specifics." And the newspaper's editors agree with Berenson that the IPO feels like a flashback. Where was all this skepticism when we needed it?

On a lighter note, the style section covers a new generation of New Yorker cartoonists, under the supervision of cartoon editor Robert Mankoff.
Mr. Diffee crossed paths with an older cartoonist emerging from Mr. Mankoff's office, looking as though he'd seen a ghost. Mr. Mankoff, the cartoonist confessed, had given him an ultimatum: no more fedoras in his cartoons.

"The look on his face was as though it hadn't occurred to him not to draw people with hats," Mr. Diffee said. "I don't own a hat. I've never drawn a hat, and if I ever had to draw a fedora I'd have to Google it. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll be O.K.'"
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