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...voice has filled tv studios, adorned advertisements and sold one of the most successful video game franchises of all time. On April 16, Madden announced his retirement from broadcasting, a trade to which his enthusiasm and folksy wisdom made him singularly well-suited. (See pictures from an NFL training camp...
...brought you to the point you are at today? LD: I had a completely different childhood than David, because his was in Maine, and mine was in the mountains in the Philippines where I was born just before the war, and I spent the war in a Japanese internment camp. So it was a strange place, where although everyone spoke English—it had been in American possession for some decades—still, I was the only American kid in our mountain village, and although I had playmates, who were fairly social, I think still books were...
...land that coveted position at [insert financial firm with head above water here] will gleefully devote 90-hour weeks to their firms, returning to their apartments only to shower and sleeping under their desks for approximately 90 minutes per 24 hours. Budding musicians and aspiring journalists will set up camp in Williamsburg or at NYU housing, hoping to work up enough hipster cred to create a cleverly named tumblr that people might actually read. Finally, there is the PBHA wunderkind-turned-activist. These heroes of the summer score public-service fellowships that allow them to live in the city...
Plouffe offered several explanations, including tough attacks from the Clinton camp, the portrayal of Obama as a “rock star” in the media, Clinton’s “moment of emotion,” and a “subterranean battle with John McCain for independent voters...
...Crimea, once remarked. Violent clashes between local law enforcement bodies and Tatar settlers have occurred in the past. Tensions over Yani Qirim threatened to boil over in January, when inhabitants say they got word of a police decision to storm the settlement, and 3,000 Tatars set up camp for several days to offer protection. "We will defend our homes and families," says Khalilov. And not only from the police. In 2007, Ukranian media reported that representatives of the developer had clashed with Tatars at the site...