Mr Montgomery's story is in part about the problem of what to do with a working-class paper in a country in which everybody has decided they are middle class.
This is clear from the performance of the commercial-paper market, another short-term asset class that rarely hits the headlines, where rates suddenly hit six-year highs last week.
But Mr Montgomery's grand plans have failed to distract investors' attention from the decline of the Mirror, once Britain's great working-class paper, which sold 5.3m copies at its peak 30 years ago and now sells only 2.3m.
During her hourlong structural engineering class she sends 20-plus e-mails, works on a class paper and takes meticulous notes in outline form on her MacBook Air.
During her 9 a.m. hourlong structural engineering class she sends 20-plus e-mails, works on a class paper and takes meticulous notes in outline form on her MacBook Air.
Four decades ago, women and minorities were second-class citizens at the paper.
Sociological explanations about the decline of the working class do not quite suffice: newspapers can reinvent themselves, as the Daily Mail did in the 1970s, when it turned itself into the middle-class women's paper.
And that, a blank piece of paper, is not going to prevent middle-class tax rates from going up.
Mr. Nulty has a collection of more than 400 airplane models plus old ads and posters, TWA first-class menus from 1960s and paper dresses worn by TWA flight attendants.
Most were just lyrics penned on loose-leaf paper while I was bored in math class.
His professors at the University of Massachusetts Amherst had set his graduate class an assignment - pick an economics paper and see if you can replicate the results.
One afternoon, Lauren's class was building cardboard and construction-paper models of New York landmarks, a lesson that leads up to the challenge of building 3-D models in the computer.
Since then the company, founded by Andrew Mason three and a half years ago, looks to be suffering the death of a thousand cuts paper cuts, that is, from class actions around the terms of its deals, state regulator cease-and-desist letters around its marketing of alcohol and the me-too business plans of 425 competitors that have flooded the marketplace.
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