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...watchers generally took the news as a sign of GM's new assertiveness on image control. "The GM recall is a result of the heightened awareness that the manufacturers have on the quality of their products in the wake of Toyota's problems. We will continue to see automakers be very proactive about owning up to manufacturing problems before the issues become PR nightmares," says Jesse Toprak, an analyst with TrueCar.com...
...sound mixing for her work on Star Trek, agreed to hear my suggestions. For those of you who don't know what a sound mixer does: she mixes sound. I met Anna four years ago, when I attempted to prove that fashion publicity had gotten so out of control that even a sound mixer could get a designer to lend her a dress for the Oscars. A $2,650 Escada dress, a $1,195 black Swarovski-crystal purse and a $45,000 Erica Courtney diamond bracelet later, I had proved that I am the gayest investigative journalist in the world...
...this, I can retire at any time I want," she tells me. Six years ago, when she was nominated for both Seabiscuit and The Last Samurai and still lost, she got so frustrated, she decided to run a marathon. "I kept thinking: I'm sick of not being in control, and it's so random. I want to be in control of something," she says. It was then that I realized that someone should have suggested marathon running to George W. Bush after 9/11...
...role of the stabilizer, the man who brings everything back under control, is an appropriate one for someone who has triumphed over so much adversity in his time here...
...Dove have effectively rotated what must be one of the most thankless jobs on Capitol Hill. They kept switching off because various congressional leaders fired one or the other in frustration. Dove served under Republicans from 1981-87, when he was fired by Robert Byrd after Dems took control. Frumin ran things until 1995, when Dove was reinstated. He only lasted until 2001, when he was fired by Trent Lott over his advice on the budget resolution. Lott reinstalled Frumin - making him the only parliamentarian to be appointed by both parties - who then stuck to Dove's recommendations...