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...investment banking and financial publishing. It's not that I couldn't do the work ... I was a good employee. In fact, I hardly ever quit until I got a promotion. The last thing I wanted was a job that called for nice clothes, a respectable car, and a decent apartment. Journalism, I figured, was my last resort. Hemingway made it sound easy enough." His chosen profession eventually sent him to Bosnia to cover Maryland soldiers for a small community newspaper, and later to an annual festival called the Rainbow Gathering, where he covered hippies, drugs and "spontaneous order...
...media's adoration of Obama is over the top. He has adorned five of your last six covers. Now he is F.D.R. Will he be God next week? Obama is a decent, intelligent man who may make a good President. However, people who think he is our salvation and that all of our national problems will be solved the day after his inauguration are in for a rude awakening. Enough already! P.S. Yes, I voted for him. Marie Virene, Louisville, Colorado...
...salsero. The camera would follow the cables from the cramped room--13 Cuban musicians jammed in a room that wouldn't fit five Americans!--out to the porch, where the roadies and techs are busy tweaking something on the big mixer because all the gear is a mix of decent parts and horrible parts, quarter-inch cables held together with used tape, Roland keyboards wobbling on rusted stands...
...smiling, were carefully selected, he recalls. "We chose them with only one thing in mind, and that is to not make them bad pictures because bad pictures would be seen as racist," Davis says. "How many shots in their ads did they use a John McCain [photo] looking decent and smiling?" He says the campaign also agonized over the music in the ads, paying special care not to play drum-heavy tracks that could be seen as an African tribal reference. "We were held to a totally different standard," he says...
...Markley said of Alemany, who finished with 10 points and six rebounds in 22 minutes. “She had a couple steals, some great shots, she got the chance to let herself show. It was a great game for her.”But while Harvard had a decent offensive showing, shooting 35 percent from distance and 40 percent overall, its defense wiped that effort off the board—Marist shot a gaudy 48 percent on the day. Coming off a 36-point effort in her team’s last game at Northeastern, Fitz had another strong...