Bylines of the Future

TIME senior writer RICHARD LACAYO always seems to have one foot in our Nation section and the other in the Arts section. Those realms meld this week in his story on Frank Gehry, as Lacayo sizes up the architect's artistic and social impact. Not exactly a hardship assignment, the story required him to visit Gehry-designed structures across the globe, including those in Seattle as well as in Barcelona and, of course, Bilbao, Spain.

Senior editor JANICE C. SIMPSON got to travel exactly nowhere while she oversaw this week's profile of Frank Gehry as well as the cover story on reality-television programming. In fact, she barely had time to leave her desk. "Putting both stories in the magazine," says Simpson, "reflects the crazy and endlessly exciting mix of important art and trivial pursuit that makes up our cultural life at the turn of this century."

From Morocco, SCOTT MACLEOD, TIME's roving Middle East correspondent, sends an up-close look at King Mohammed VI. Not only did MacLeod sit down with the young monarch for the first royal interview, but he moved with the King as well, flying and driving about with him. Writer and King even went for a jog together. Says MacLeod of the Moroccans: "This is the first major political change these people have had in their lifetimes."