Written Pyramids

I've been doing some alumni stalking for my friend who is now the Editor in Chief of my college newspaper. There are some pretty impressive alumni out there. I hope to someday be able to be compared to them even a little.

At risk of someone doing some impressive googling, and destroying my anonymity, the alumni of that paper -- a club to which I now belong-- include:

• A former Editor in Chief of the New York Times
• One of the reporters subpoened in the Valerie Plame debacle
• The author of one of my favorite books
• An editor of the New York Times Magazine
• A Washington bureau chief and a Washington deputy bureau chief
• A Moscow correspondent for a major news network
• A politics reporter immortalized in Timothy Crouse's Boys on the Bus who gave me encouragement when I needed it most by signing his memoir "With best regards to a budding reporter."

And that's just a sampling.