Word: chased
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YouTube stirred enormous buzz with its growing video community last year, and Zennstrom and Friis, who had no formal business plan, faced a quandary early in the project's development. Should they chase the user-generated-content train or go after video of a different kind? They chose the latter path, despite the dollar signs dangling from YouTube. Given the fortunes Zennstrom and Friis had already accumulated, they could afford to gamble on the venture, which they have largely funded on their own. "They're cutting edge, passionate and aggressive," says Lucas Mann, co-founder of MusicNation, an artist-development...
...great album to relax to, and transports the listener into a much less complicated world of tranquil musicality. It will also be released in two-disc format, with the latter disc providing remixes of the songs by a number of semi-famous artists, such as Jesu and Paper Chase. Having not heard the remix disc, I can’t say whether it will promote the same sense of psychedelic euphoria when combined with illegal substances. But the un-remixed album will make your toes curl up with delight. Even if you’re not partial to trance-like...
...place on the team is secure, but his ethic has not slackened. He is the embodiment of his coaches’ advice to the team to maintain an “underdog mentality,” saying that, “you run faster when you have something to chase.” Whether Denenberg chases down his opponents’ shots or his own grueling athletic and academic goals—he is concentrating in engineering sciences—he has shown that he has the fortitude to reach them. “He grew from a solid baseline...
...President George W. Bush has lowered the standard of the presidency so much that everyone feels qualified to hold the office. Babak Roboubi Chevy Chase, Maryland...
...City of Fear”(Irving Lerner, 1959) is a particularly acerbic mixture of wit and worry. As the Los Angeles Police chase down an escaped convict who has accidentally stolen a cylinder of radioactive Cobalt-60 (he thinks it’s heroin), debate rages as to whether the public should be informed. Though it’s hard-bitten noir with a fierce political edge, the emotional climate of “City of Fear” is distinctly oppressive. Even the roadside billboards seem to be watching...