In case you're boycotting the business section to stave off recession depression, we wanted to relay the glad tidings that led off Richard Pérez-Peña's recent New York Times profile of Condé Nast chairman Samuel I. "Si" Newhouse (pictured at right, pixellated by Lacie Argyle into hundreds of tiny magazine covers): the magazine magnate knows his kerning!

When the wizards at Condé Nast Publications recently marched a pre-press issue of Brides magazine through an in-house review, Si Newhouse...wondered aloud whether a few of the letters on the cover were a tad too close together.

As it turned out, they were.