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...what enfant terrible means. I think Larry Summers is a good guy. Well, no. I guess I don’t think he’s a good guy. He’s not really enfant terrible, he’s just like a rock. No, more like a boulder. No, more like a mountain...
Conversationally, Adams is more like a boulder--immovable at first, but when he gets rolling, it's with considerable force. Told that Lewis believes he needs just one radio hit to establish him in the public's mind as a major artist (Lewis cites Neil Young's Old Man as an example of such a breakthrough), Adams snaps to attention. "The other day I was reading this article about Beck," he says. "He's tremendous. But he's been on this tour where he's playing his new record, and still, pretty much the last song he has to play...
...Captain Worthan can locate the enemy on the north, east and south sides of the ridge, just inside the border. U.S. spotters target at least 30 al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters. Worthan, while dodging sniper fire behind a boulder, orders up the full wrath of several Apache attack helicopters and an A-10 Warthog gunship. "The whole ridge was ripped up," Worthan later recalls. "It was like time stopped." The Americans estimate that more than 20 al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters were killed...
...felt ecstasy, as if a burden had been lifted. Creativity started flowing into all areas of my life. I began a romance, then married at 18 and became a mother at 19. And by that time, I was singing professionally at a college hangout called Michael's Pub in Boulder, Colo., for $100 a week, along with all the beer and pizza I wanted. That first gig supported our young family while my husband was in school, and it began my professional career as a folk singer...
...Boulder, Colo...