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Last Friday, I felt Boston’s collective heart start beating again.For all the romance about the Red Sox and the hoopla surrounding Bill Belichick’s stealth with a video camera, Boston has bled Celtic green since Red Auerbach paced the sidelines decades ago.So when Celtics tickets went on sale last Friday, this old city’s heart—broken and embittered after 20 years of pure misery—started pumping the same green blood that fueled a 30-year obsession with arguably the NBA’s best franchise.And I, the hapless Midwesterner...
...Illinois. Fleischer explained this conclusion in a paper that he began circulating last year. Since then, his brief for taxing carried interest as ordinary income--what the proposed House bill would do--has won over tax wonks and piqued congressional interest. "It seems like a reasonable argument," says Alan Auerbach, a University of California, Berkeley, economist and tax expert. "I don't think there are many people in the tax-policy community who believe that it isn't." But there's no law that says the tax code has to be reasonable, and the private-equity guys claim...
Because the people in the room had influenced so many of us, we asked some honorees to talk about who had most influenced them. Michael Bloomberg, the innovative mayor of New York, paid tribute to Red Auerbach, the great coach of the Boston Celtics in the 1950s and 1960s who broke the color bar in the NBA. Elizabeth Edwards, the courageous wife of presidential candidate John Edwards, spoke movingly about her cancer, saying she accepted the TIME 100 honor "only as a representative of all the men and women who are facing diagnoses like mine, and who continue to fight...
...Crimson (4-0, 3-0 Ivy) on the A Team were captain Ilan Oren, freshman Colin West, seniors Garnett Booth and Mihir Sheth, and sophomore Verdi DiSesa. On the B Team, Harvard competed with sophomore Niko Hrdy, senior Todd Ostrow, sophomore Ned Reeves, freshman Frank Cohen, and senior Brett Auerbach. The A Team finished fifth for the Crimson after losing a second-round match to a strong Philadelphia team made up of professional players. Harvard had advanced easily into the second round by defeating a high school team 5-0. After its loss, the Crimson won its next two matches...
...better the longer they played. A different sound than the headliners, to be sure, and, while the crowd responded politely, lead singer Alex Maas’ reminder to “stick around for the Black Keys” was met with many an anxious yell. When Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney finally emerged, crowd noise reached its peak. Auerbach riffed his way colossally into “Thickfreakness,” the title track of their 2003 release, Carney beat furiously on his spare drum kit, and the tone was set for the rest of the night. Auerbach...