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...Sleater-Kinney's singer-guitarists, lacked the commercial ambition to come up with a moniker that didn't glare at them from the highway. "Our friends gave us a lot of flak," says Brownstein, "naming all the other roads in Olympia that we could have used." David Geffen's ear was not glued to the wall of their cube...
...even more annoyed by Philadelphia's finest, who are dressed in their finest, who have lapel pins and plastic ear coils and who don't hold a candle to the Secret Service when it comes to politeness, tact and physical fitness. But I love the cops. I mean, they stood their ground this week when zany and stupid protestors tried to provoke them...
Even if I don't catch something spicy, anticipation keeps me hooked. Every time someone starts digging around in a dresser drawer or whispering in someone else's ear, I wonder what juicy tidbit I'll discover. I want to know what makes each person tick, which one will crack first and who will say nasty things behind someone else's back...
Doerr is a man whose ear thousands of start-up entrepreneurs vie for, yet he spends a few hours each week seeking to improve public education. "The one thing we know about this new economy," he says, "is that if you can't do algebra, if you can't do symbolic reasoning, you are going to get left behind forever...
...should a midsummer night on vacation put me in this mood? It's not gloom, but a sense of dislocation and otherworldliness brought on, perhaps, by the full moon. Nights like this I hold my own skull up to my ear, so to speak, and hear the sound of the ocean...