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Yalie Robert Schrum, Naam, Perkins and Wake Forest’s representative James Fitzpatrick III attributed their advancement this far to their good memories, eclectic and wide scope of knowledge, and avid reading of newspapers, magazines, books, and other media...
...beyond the most avid followers, fewer and fewer Americans are buying into the mystique. NBC dropped the telecast due to unspectacular ratings. But ABC, the current network carrying the telecast, is trying its best. This year, the executive producer is a veteran of shows such as “Britney Spears in Hawaii...
...abiding habit. "Somebody in your neighborhood will always have pirated cable," says Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks. "But the social norm is, if you want cable, you pay for it." Yet freeloaders won't necessarily go quietly. LaTisha Knowles, 19, a Florida A&M sophomore and former avid file sharer, still refuses to buy CDs. "It's a waste of money," she says. Karen Keenan, 26, a copywriter in Chicago, downloads regularly from iTunes--but also from free file sharer LimeWire. "I have the same moral problem with sharing digital music that I have with public libraries--i.e., none...
...fact, the only subject that could prompt Ford to stray from the topic of a lecture was his pet sport, baseball. Ford, who played baseball in high school and college, was an avid fan. According to his son, one of his greatest disappointments was that neither of his two favorite teams—the Chicago Cubs of his hometown and the Boston Red Sox of his adopted city—won the World Series during his lifetime...
...lubrications of sun and fun and wealth that we still call California. He was born in the Austrian village of Thal, near Graz, in 1947, in the struggling years right after World War II. His mother was a homemaker. His father was a policeman and an avid performer of military music, which may help explain why Schwarzenegger sometimes reminds you of a one-man oompah band...