LAFAYETTE, La., May 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Are small banks the country's future? That's the question The New York Times Magazine seeks to answer in its Sunday, May 17, story titled "Rusty Cloutier Has Money to Spare." Reporter Jim Rendon's story explores what small banks like MidSouth Bank, where Cloutier serves as president and CEO, are teaching the rest of the country about how to change the financial system.

By Michael Sokolove From The New York Times Magazine * The Obama for President headquarters in Levittown, Pennsylvania, is set on a busy thoroughfare just to the east of where all the houses begin - 17,311 of them built by the developer William Levitt between 1952 and 1957.

A new national poll of recent college graduates by The New York Times Magazine and mtvU suggests that high school seniors anxious about their college choices ought to forget rankings, chill out and savor the best years of their lives.