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...aide takes down addresses to send follow-up letters. Blair gets a chance to repeat ad nauseam the themes of Labour's campaign: the Tories will cut spending, our economy is stable, Labour has done a lot to help pensioners. After 90 minutes, people are asking for his autograph and posing for photos. He does some quick local interviews - the disbelieving national press has not been invited: "They're a total waste," says veteran adviser Alastair Campbell - then a radio call-in, then another hair-shirt session in Wales with readers of a local paper...
...Republic critique of Zadie Smith’s second novel, The Autograph Man, Wood scathingly noted that the novel felt like “a newspaper designed by a kindergartner.” A year later, in the fall of 2003, he took a lecturing job in the same department where Smith was employed. “We were both quite nervous about meeting each other,” Wood explains, adding that he usually avoids meeting the authors he disparages. But the two “got on very well” and were quick to find that they...
MEANWHILE IN THE U.S.... Poetic Justice A judge in the trial of a doctor, notorious for asking dying Beatle George Harrison to autograph a guitar, waxed lyrical in agreeing to the physician's request to move an unrelated suit because of the adverse publicity from the Harrison incident. Set to the classic Beatles song, his ruling started "Something in the folks he treats/ Attracts bad press like no other doctor." Anyone who had forgotten why Dr. Gil Lederman was famous, has now remembered...
...Boston inner-city youth programs come, and all the little girls and all the little boys love us to death and make us feel like we’re rock stars. They yell our names out all day long, and at the end they run down and have us autograph their magazines...
Tomorrow’s match is also special for Harvard because it is Youth Day. At the event last season, each child in attendance was given a team photo and was treated to an autograph session with the Crimson players at the conclusion of the game...