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Almost no one gave Lewis a chance of surviving in his job as post as he has. His critics cannot get much satisfaction about his fate. He still have the corner office and a board that loves him despite his best efforts to be unlovable...
Peter Gallagher, the caterpillar-browed actor best known for the TV show The O.C. and films like While You Were Sleeping, is standing on a street corner, cell phone wedged against his shoulder, simultaneously trying to maintain an animated conversation and order a hotdog from a street vendor. Commuters push past him on the sidewalk, and in the background, yellow taxis fight their way through traffic...
...little grainy, and we have fish-eyes. But let’s chat. Now, I love talking at a two inch, two dimensional representation of a human face just as much as the next person, but can someone please tell me the purpose of the window in the corner where I can see myself? I don’t set up a mirror to watch myself during normal conversations, so why should I during a video chat? I don’t like it when intruders pop into the image on the other end, just...
...full of video icons and no more of those outdated dots. And who doesn’t like to check themselves out? Let’s be real. You have the big box with your brother/lover/Thai pen pal/parole officer, but then you have that smaller box in the upper corner with your own face—the best of both worlds. Depending on how stimulating the conversation is (a steamy striptease versus pretending to care about someone else’s problems), you can always just admire your digital image staring back at you. And even if said person catches...
Late on a recent Monday afternoon, Artur Davis, the Alabama congressman, stood before a racially diverse crowd of casually dressed men and women in the vast main hall of Rainbow City's community center. The talk centered on how to bring jobs to Alabama's economically depressed northeastern corner, bolstering parental responsibility, making college more affordable, and, simply, hope. Five months earlier, Davis won reelection to a fourth term representing Alabama's 7th Congressional district, which includes the hub of the state's once-robust cotton industry. Now, he has begun his campaign to win the governor's office...