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...museum restaurant and found limos outside. Inside, local women in glittery dresses glided by accompanied by elegant men at a private party. "Let's crash," Stacey proposed, and Ellie was instantly up for it. They drank exotic cocktails with hors d'oeuvres and clung together in the crowd, giggling all the time and finding pleasure just in being in each other's company. The next year they went to the Dominican Republic...
...crowd at yearly Kos, the Daily Kos' bloggers' convention in Las Vegas last week, was predictably politigeeky. Glued to their laptops, the bloggers wore their liberal hearts on their lapels. (The most popular button showed Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman, reviled for his pro-war position, kissing George W. Bush.) But in defiance of the image of the blogger, the crowd wasn't young...
...crowd is older and more professional than coverage of the blogosphere might lead one to expect. In the session on recruiting progressive candidates for local office, there's an ER doctor, an AIDS activist, a high-school teacher and a representative from the Organic Consumers Association. There are some that conform to type: thirtyish and pale, sloppily dressed and bleary-eyed. Those are the journalists. There are a lot of them. One organizer put the ratio of conference-goers to reporters at eight to one, which seemed high until I visited one workshop that managed to score drive-bys from...
...time Moulitsas makes his first official appearance, it?s after those cordial conferencees have been milling around at a buffet reception for an hour or so, drinking from the cash bar and getting glittery-eyed. The cartoonist Tom Tomorrow warms up the crowd, reading his cartoons aloud as they are projected on giant screens behind him. It doesn?t seem that vital to pay attention, but halfway through the act, a Yearly Kos volunteer stops by the conversational knot I?m in and shushes us. It?s the first sign of militancy and while they may not be reaching...
...first year in the pros was a disaster - the hometown crowd booed him lustily, and his sorry defense earned the nickname "Irk" (no D). He fit the prevailing stereotype of European players - very skilled shooters and passers who shy away from contact. Translation: softer than a Bavarian pretzel. "I was strictly a jump shooter," Nowitzki admits. "When [opponents] took that away, my game was pretty much over." Dallas almost lost him. "He was a choirboy," says Donnie Nelson, president of basketball operations for the Mavericks. "We were afraid that he was struggling so much, he was actually considering going back...