Word: casey
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...from the doo-wop era it poked fun at), the show has the purity of an archetype, and even a few serious points to make about the adolescent pressure to conform, the glamour of the outcast, and the conflict between authenticity and "cool." Even the old Jim Jacobs-Warren Casey songs have more wit and resonance than I recall - like the simple girl-boy counterpoint in "Summer Love...
...the 5-ft. 6-in. (1.68 m) shortstop listened to manager Casey Stengel, who told him he'd be a better shoeshine boy than ballplayer when he tried out for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Phil Rizzuto would not have won seven World Series rings, the American League MVP award in 1950 or election to the Hall of Fame. The Yankee great, nicknamed Scooter, then found his voice as a folksy, rambling and partisan Yankee announcer, calling games until...
...Casey Parks, winner of a 2006 joint Times and mtvU contest that saw her secure a coveted spot with Kristof as he reported from Africa, said that while the opportunity certainly helped her along in her quest for a career in journalism—she now writes for The Oregonian in Portland—her remaining ties to the Times should not be overstated...
What did you aspire to as a child, or as a young adult? -Casey Jamieson, Huntington, VermontWhen I first entered Nintendo they weren't even making video games, I joined [the company] thinking that I was going to do product planning. Shortly after, Space Invaders came out and I thought that might be something I might want to do. Actually, when I was younger I wanted to be a puppeteer...
...Unlike Casey, Petraeus seems to have had a moment to seize. A good chunk of the Sunni insurgency has turned against al-Qaeda in Iraq, the fringe group - it comprises no more than 5% of the insurgency, according to U.S. intelligence estimates - that is responsible for the most spectacular bombings. The anti-Qaeda rebellion began in Anbar, formerly the most dangerous province in the country, an area famously described as "lost" to the terrorists in a Marine intelligence report leaked to the press in 2006. "Actually, the first tentative steps in Anbar were taken in 2005," Petraeus told me over...