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They play in a lonely driveway under a forlorn trumpet and two drums, this silent band. At a yellowed keyboard markered with “Katrina Band of New Orleans,” a gorilla plays forever, an empty bottle of Bacardi in his lap. Next to the pianist, a monster hunches over a guitar, ignoring the empty wine bottle nearby.The lead singer, a mannequin with a gray wig, sings at a rusty microphone. David L. Fountain, 54, calls this wooden statue his wife. Without her, Fountain would have been a bachelor all his life, he says...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Meet My Wife, Katrina | 4/12/2006 | See Source »

...about a full Cabinet meeting. Suspecting something was up, members of the parliamentary press corps staked out the Centre Block that morning to try to buttonhole ministers entering the building. Among them was CBC cameraman Victor Modderman, who spotted Harper's three-limousine motorcade cruising up the Parliament Hill driveway. But just as the cars were approaching him, they abruptly veered to the right and zoomed toward the back of the building. Modderman slung his camera over his shoulder and took off in pursuit. He arrived just in time to capture Harper stepping out of his car and grimly walking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Controlling The Message | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...less of a lecture. This new media age is not simply democratization of the production of information; the democratization of access is at least as valuable as our individual ability to participate. We don’t have to settle anymore for the newspaper someone tosses into the driveway or be satisfied with the five o’clock news broadcast. We always knew there was more. Now we can get it speedily and easily.We can—and many of us do—assemble our own news reports from these vast data streams. We can use tools...

Author: By Dan Gillmor, | Title: Making Sense of the Flood | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

...mornings (call-in hours start at 7) and on weekends. During ear-infection season we see each other about once a week. Lately I've been thinking about asking him to move in with me and my husband, but I'm not sure there's room in our driveway for a third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why I Dumped the Baby Doctor | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

...says he lives in fear of his Anglo neighbors, who seem to be constantly scolding him on the street. He thinks they might be mistaking him for one of his housemates, who disrupted the quiet neighborhood with repeated attempts to do body- repair work on old cars in the driveway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Life of the Migrants Next Door | 1/29/2006 | See Source »

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