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...look, cool moves and a crafty urban sound into a commanding cultural presence. One crucial difference is that Madonna now dwells in the realms of rarefied pop; she is a totem of high fashion. Jackson, Abdul, Watley and Estefan have a more vigorous immediacy. They seem, whatever their success, cozier with the kids, closer to the street corner...
...match the news hole of the Times," says McClatchy, 59. As publisher, McClatchy plucked brash Jerry Grilly from Florida, where he was running a chain of weeklies. "It was like someone offered me a job on the moon," recalls Grilly, now 39. The moon might have been cozier. When Grilly arrived in Anchorage, the Times controlled 85% of the advertising dollars. "It was tough getting people to return my calls, much less buy," he says. But Grilly pelted away at prospective advertisers and built an 80-person circulation cadre that outhustled the Times, indulging in such expensive ploys as flying...
Professors agree that their greater personal contact with students makes for a more relaxed environment. "It's cozier," says Tubb. "We're small and we're friendly," agrees Karin E. Michelson, head tutor in Linguistics...
...British cemeteries seem cozier, with rows of flowers and bushes along the lines of gravestones. Farther inland at Orglandes, the German cemetery is resolutely austere; its 10,152 graves are marked with blunt crosses of lavender-flecked gray granite. Few tourists come to the German cemetery, but those who do often feel compelled to write a comment in the visitors' book at the entrance. A German wrote, "Nie wieder" (never again), and the same message is repeated, page after page, in French and English...
...every case administrators agree that the guest suites surpass undergraduate rooms in accomodations. Most contain a living room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, and are generally "cozier" than student quarters, McNally says. "Someone years ago must have gone out and bought real furniture for these rooms," she concludes...