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...Staffers there say that they are resigned to sharing the candidate's attention. And Davis dismisses the second-guessing of McCain's strategy bluntly. "Everyone's caught up in this macro-strategy s---," he says. "and it's a big waste of time...
More than 3,000 miles (4,800 km) to the west, in the Angolan capital Luanda, another entrepreneur, Adérito Cassolongo, faces far tougher prospects. As a young man, he taught himself English and wangled a job with the U.N. Then, with a civil war raging, he caught a plane to South Africa, where he slept rough on the streets of Pretoria before becoming a boxer and earning $30 a week. In the evenings, he taught English to other Angolans, then built his own computers from spare parts and used them to set up a computer-training school. Today Cassolongo...
...behavioral science. Where and how we use our devices define our species and sensibility. A whole new school of Edith Wharton etiquette arises. It's O.K. for your boss to check his BlackBerry at lunch, because he's a Very Important Person, but God help you if you get caught even glancing down when yours pings. When college students meet for coffee, their cell phones are out on the table, windows facing up. Among the most e-mailed stories in the New York Times a couple of weeks back was one about the perfect vigilante weapon for the modern...
...balloon animals, exhausting the audience into submission. Even if people didn't understand that he was playing the character of a jerk, they applauded as a reward for his efforts. After years of one-night stands in cities with interchangeably bland hotel rooms, Martin and his faux-idiocy finally caught on. (Guest spots on the Tonight Show and SNL helped.) The nobody was suddenly...
...suffer," he said. "We are all one. Bliss is our nature ... But somehow tonight this beautiful gift has gotten perverted. Let's march boldly toward a bright and shining future!" The strangeness of the whole affair was not lost on film students in the audience, one of whom caught it on film . At the very least, the evening was suitably Lynchian: disturbing but good theater nonetheless...