Word: californianism
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Online porn certainly pays. Thomas' income last year topped $800,000, enabling the slight, shaggy-haired Californian to indulge in his two extracurricular passions: expensive cars and exotic birds. Subscriptions have more than doubled (to 7,000) since his arrest. Some of the newcomers aren't even bothering to download the dirty pictures; they seem to be offering their $99-per-year subscription fees as donations to the cause. The extra income will come in handy, since the Thomases' legal bills are approaching...
...native Californian, Marlowe has an education ideally suited for a foreign correspondent, with a B.A. in French from UCLA, a master's in international relations from Oxford and a year of study at the Sorbonne. She speaks French and Arabic. Among Lara's greatest assets are her intrepidness and versatility. Says chief of correspondents Joelle Attinger: "With Lara, you know you'll get the story. She's an incredibly quick study, an acute observer and rigorously fair." As Marlowe puts it, "I've learned how crucial it is to show that I don't take sides. In a civil...
...veterans and a talented young Californian took top honors at the 37th annual Grammy Awards. Tony Bennett, who won his first Grammy 33 years ago for I Left My Heart in San Francisco, won Best Album with MTV Unplugged. Bruce Springsteen's Streets of Philadelphia was named Best Song. And Sheryl Crow is the year's Best New Artist...
declares Mary L. Naber, a first-year from Salinas, California. She's not alone. As a fellow Californian, I can vouch that the orange goop upon which Harvard Dining Services bestows this deceiving moniker is not a staple of the average Californian diet. But the misnomers don't stop here...
Months after a fall White House purge, White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers said today she's leaving her job at year's end. "It is time for me to move on to do other things," said the 34-year old native Californian, the first woman to hold the post. Myers' resignation was widely expected since her successful efforts to fight off an attempt by Chief of Staff Leon Panetta to move her to another job in a staff overhaul at the White House. Today, when asked if was being forced out, Myers said, "I'm neither jumping...