1.   Academic and journalist, teacher and critic, Lerner contributed to both social science periodicals and Playboy magazine, highbrow opinion journals and The New York Post.

2.   By contrast, since last year the government has allowed the publication of such scholarly opinion journals as Goftegu, or Dialogue, which advocates a more participatory democracy.

3.   The outsiders work through various power centers, including the conservative American Enterprise Institute, and such opinion journals as The Weekly Standard.

4.   Two influential opinion journals, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, have lengthy articles in their most recent issues that question the direction Wolfensohn has taken the bank.