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Zander tells the story with a baby boomer's nostalgia for his 1950s childhood and a true salesman's pride. Now CEO of Motorola, Zander, 58, doesn't hide the fact that he has tried to animate the company with his particular brand of Brooklyn moxie. He acknowledges that Motorola has a storied past. (Its engineers invented the cellular phone and the walkie-talkie, and it was one of the world's first manufacturers of semiconductors.) But in the years before Zander took over, Motorola had been losing ground to the market-leading muscle of Nokia and to the stylish...
...film or partying. First thing you notice about a boy: His eyes/hair/smile. Your best pick-up line: Ew, pick-up lines! Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: I love you. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: I heart Robb Moss. Favorite childhood toy: Oh there are so many...pogs, Guess Who, Creepy Crawlers and blankets (for making forts). Fave part about Harvard: The Seneca, the fencing team, all-nighters with fellow crazy VES kiddies. Describe yourself in three words: Passionate, driven, creative. In 15 minutes you are: Logging and capturing video footage...
...finished product is a heartfelt autobiography, an earnest account of how Ruggiero, through her gifts on the rink, overcame a difficult childhood and transcended expectations on the way to international fame and success...
...show persona, he says, wouldn't be a good dad. "The kids have to be more important than you.") Born in Charleston, S.C., he studied theater at Northwestern University and then did improv work with Chicago's Second City troupe--a pursuit, he says, not unrelated to his childhood addiction to role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. He also developed a news habit. As a young actor, he would stay up until 4 a.m. watching ABC's late-night news after gigs. All that went into the smarmy, self-satisfied correspondent he created for The Daily Show, which he joined...
...Vanderslice) with a more refined sound and wider instrumentation, these albums have been received with reservations by fans accustomed to the raw truthfulness of previous work. In addition, both albums abandon the traditional song-series and their fictional narratives, telling instead an autobiographical account of Darnielle’s childhood. Writing closer to home, Darnielle drops the overbearing hysterics of the alpha-series lover for projections onto details of his childhood. Take despair: In “Tahallassee” our protagonist loses perspective, remarking, “Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania...