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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really content when I can get paid for shooting the shit. I want to go into sales....I'll be happier when I can be a rainmaker, when my job is to make friends and to have connections....Personally, I can only see the professional side of my future. I can see myself with grandkids but no kids. The in-between part in kind of hazy. I just want to be where the action is--Chicago...
...This past year, however, things have been slightly different. FM has attracted a small following of contributors from the more traditional content corners of the newspaper. Well, perhaps, "small" is an overstatement. Actually, it s really only been Josh and me. During the past two semesters, we have been sucked into the maelstrom of egos, brilliance, bullshit and creativity that is FM. These are just a few of our stories...
...foot. The Owl Club, for instance, posted two disasters for its season: one when they missed their "booze cruise" due to scheduling mishaps and then, more seriously, when graduate members closed the club to them on the night of their final initiation party. Harvard seems to be content to watch the clubs spin their own web of destruction as they alienate their graduate members, thus destroying an important part of their mission--to be an old boys' network for their members...
...chilled to the bone when I read your article about ad networks, Web retailers and content sites being able to monitor one's habits on the Internet [BUSINESS, Nov. 22]. When I first went online early in 1995, I was aware that some of my privacy would be compromised. But now I wonder what will happen to us as we become more compartmentalized and end up relying more and more on computers in virtually every aspect of our lives. Today I sit cloaked in a grim sense of defeat. I feel myself staring blankly into my glaring monitor, mumbling...
Listening to a Brion-produced song is like entering a tastefully decorated drawing room. Brion--who plays piano, drums and guitar--often fills his music with warm instrumentation but never overwhelms a song's emotional content. In his own compositions, his lyrics are playfully pensive. "I wish I could say that we'd fallen from grace," he sings on Dead to the World, a song from his solo CD. "But we never made it to that place." Says Brion: "The willingness to fall on your face pays for the moments that are a little more transcendent." He's now shopping...