Word: bande
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...which Internet muckrakers made a difference in the campaign, argues Eric Boehlert. The former Salon and Rolling Stone writer calls this liberal "netroots" movement the strongest political force since the Christian right--one that, oddly, draws scant attention from the mainstream press. Boehlert finds engaging stories among his eccentric band of activists, including the paralegal who scored a personal call from Obama for running the candidate's largest MySpace fan page. But those profiles get bogged down in grinding detail and tiresome accounts of blogosphere squabbling. A less fawning treatment might also acknowledge drawbacks to a medium that, like talk...
...couple met through a study held at William James Hall and went on their first date last May. Over dinner at an Indian restaurant, the pair bonded over their shared taste in music. Mancuso, who had spent the past few years playing 300 nights a year with his band, GBD Band, admired Donahue’s Beatles t-shirt and anecdote about singing Frank Zappa on the playground as a young child. The East Ruckland, Mass. resident said he worried that Donahue would not want to go on a second date with him. It didn’t help that...
...Born in the Bronx in 1940, to parents whom he later claimed had been first cousins. Spector's father committed suicide when his son was 12. In 1958, when he was 17, Spector formed a band called the Teddy Bears. Their first hit was a B-side called "To Know Him Is to Love Him" (taken from the inscription on Spector's father's tombstone...
...game had turned into a 9-to-1 game. I forget who was winning. It may have been the team of scrappy overachievers with nine players who make more than $13 million per year. The math I was interested in was $112. Impressive for a one-man eating band, but the Yankees were still making a killing on my ticket. Bloat was setting in, and as I stuffed three more bags of peanut M&Ms ($15) in my pockets on the way out, I felt a little depressed...
...Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Little, Brown), an ABC News exclusive and on May 25 a prime-time television special on the History Channel. Of the avalanche of media-related promotion, Jorn Hurum, a Norwegian paleontologist involved in Ida's discovery, told the New York Times, "Any pop band is doing the same thing." (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...