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Written without a hint of irony--if only your neighborhood dry cleaner sent his employees home by hybrid limousine--this front-page dispatch captured perfectly the eco-pretensions of the rich and the stupefying gullibility with which they are received...
Ambulance driver Hussein Mohammed (not his real name) never knows which van he'll get when he arrives for his shift at the dispatch center in downtown Baghdad. The ten vehicles on the lot are a mix of imports, including Nissans, Toyotas and Mercedes. If he's lucky, Mohammed will get a Peugeot. "It's the easiest to handle," says the shy, skinny young man who speaks in a raspy whisper. "And it's the fastest...
...Ganging Up on the Sun,” which features the single “Satellite.” Having vacillated between the mellow late-’90s rock of Third Eye Blind and Dashboard Confessional and the New England pseudo-funk of college jam bands such as Dispatch and O.A.R., Guster claim to present a more definitive sound with their latest offering, despite the admittedly unoriginal title of “Satellite.”“Elliott Smith has a ‘Satellite,’” says Rosenworcel. “Dave...
...current travel editor and theater critic of The Philadelphia Inquirer, wrote in an e-mail. “He had a drive and passion for reporting” and few of his Nieman classmates were surprised at his future success, Shapiro said. Boyd worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before coming to Harvard, and in 1983, he joined The Times’ Washington Bureau, leading Pulitzer winning coverage for articles on the first World Trade Center bombing, and series on childhood poverty and race relations in the U.S. As managing editor at The Times during the Sept. 11 attacks...
...this year, don’t let the hardwood intrigues pass you by. Penn is still the team to beat, Princeton will be tough to dispatch, and Cornell and Yale are talented up-and-comers, while Harvard is trying to avoid slipping into the bottom half once again...