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Townshend, an editor for London publisher Faber & Faber, can be lyric and affecting, but too often he is portentous: "Almost as soon as the window had misted up, a great blast of steam wafted into the street. Pete felt like the witness to some awesome nuclear test of devastating power . . . We were the frayed rubber band inside the enormous balsa-wood airplane of rock and roll...
...summer could barely hold a candle to Faber's. She estimated that the Los Angeles firm she worked for spent $100,000 for each of its 21 clerks. Faber was treated to $100 lunches, theater theatre tickets, unlimited baseball tickets, and three rock concerts including Katrina and the Waves...
...best part of Faber's summer, however, she said was not restricted to the summer associate program, but rather the fact that the firm which was paying her going salary in Los Angeles, also did public interest work...
...public service jobs sometimes don't even pay a reasonable salary. In fact, said Faber, "Usually you have a choice of being poor with the poor, or rich with the rich...
...Faber said, in addition to needing to repay loans, "It's very hard to [choose to] make a difference in people's lives instead of driving a Mercedes or going to Australia for Christmas...