Last month, his work was the subject of a lengthy front-page profile in The Detroit Free Press, in which the mayor, among other things, took swipes at his girth.

Times Hits, Runs Dear Katharine, Before you do anything else today, grab the Wall Street Journal and read the front-page profile of the new Jerry Brown, mayor of Oakland.

The Wall Street Journal, for instance, wondered in a front-page profile in January whether Mr. Brady was "up to the task," and said that under his leadership the Treasury had often "seemed asleep at the switch."

A front-page profile in the Omaha World Herald in 1996 said, "Cook's fingerprints can be found on nearly two decades of U.S. farm law."

And 17-year-old Matt Seto, the subject of a front-page profile in The Wall Street Journal last year, has controlled his own $45,000 limited partnership, the Matt Seto Fund, since he was 14.

Harry's had so quickly become a downtown institution that The Wall Street Journal published a front-page profile of it in 1976, just four years after its founding by Harry Poulakakos, a Greek immigrant.

Journalist Don Butler of The Ottawa Citizen newspaper wrote in a front-page profile of Warman:

The firing led the New York Observer to publish a front-page profile of her by George Gurley, "Eden in Exile."

The Wall Street Journal ran a front-page profile of Russ after 'Vixen!'

To the Editor: Your front-page profile of John Major, the new British Prime Minister (Nov. 28), calls him "a member of a generation too young to remember World War II."