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...magazines are canaries in the economic coal mine, Talk sang louder and in a cage more gilded than your average hunting-and-fishing monthly. Brown, a British expatriate with an outsize personality, had revitalized the moribund Vanity Fair and given the tweedy weekly New Yorker a pop-culture makeover. But doubt swirled around Talk from early on. In the era of niche media, many doubted whether readers wanted another major general-interest magazine, particularly one whose mix of Hollywood froth and high-minded reportage largely resembled Vanity Fair's. Its editorial vision--vaguely alluded to as starting a national "conversation...
...body strength and a fall-away jump shot, which allowed him to keep opponents on his hip and then finish them off without attacking the rim. After winning his sixth championship, he retired again. In his third career, Jordan is using his vast experience, the work ethic of a coal miner and the authority of a CEO (he was president of the Wizards' basketball operations until he re-signed as a player) to show the baby Wizards how to win and, if he has to on occasion, to take the game into his own hands...
...Briggs identified the gunman as Peter Odighizuwa, 43, a native of Nigeria who was estranged from his wife and four children, who also live in this town of 2400 nestled in the hilly coal fields of Virginia near the borders of Kentucky and West Virginia. The suspect, who had been suspended from the law school last year for failing grades, was about to be dismissed again, Briggs said...
...appointed to head the law school in 2000, as the school was about to enter its fourth year of operations. The school was founded in a rennovated junior high school in 1997 in an effort to produce a crop of homegrown lawyers to serve in the impoverished, coal-mining area. The first class, of 34 students, graduated...
...Hope Christmas tour in support of the Berlin airlift, he adapted the Ralph Rainger-Leo Robin "Thanks for the Memory." The bridge went: "Thanks to the fighting Air Force/ That daily took its toll;/ Now it's a humane Air Force/ With heart and soul,/ Dropping wheat and coal." (If Hope were touring today, he could sing the lyric in Afghanistan...