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Such anguish has grown palpable. FORTUNE magazine's career-advice columnist, Anne Fisher, calls the angst pouring in from her boomer readers "a continuing lament," and there's evidence that it will soon become operatic. From the mailbox of Fisher's website, askannie.com "I'm learning that being over 40 is not only an obstacle, it's more like a brick wall," writes someone who signs himself "Not Dead Yet." Bob C. thinks "younger bosses see...older [workers] as a menace." Edward, the realist, writes, "Many of us over 40 have failed to constantly update our skill sets...
Sadie Benning was unimpressed when her dad, an avant-garde filmmaker, gave her a Fisher-Price PXL 2000 toy video camera for Christmas when she was 15. Only after New Year's did she turn it on in her bedroom and start making movies about coming of age as a lesbian teenager in Milwaukee, Wis. Her grainy, black-and-white compositions soon made their way to film festivals, and by the time she was 20 her "Pixelvision" videos were shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Her 1998 video Flat Is Beautiful was screened at this...
...championship team, and in the final game of his high school career, he triple-doubled 1999-2000 NBA co-Rookie of the Year Elton Brand. Recruited as a key frontcourt contributor and handed the starting job at the beginning of his junior year, Ewing rapidly lost minutes to Paul Fisher '99 and faded far down Coach Frank Sullivan's bench...
...Ewing's Harvard career turned out to be a pure Hollywood script. When Fisher went down with mononucleosis halfway through the season, Ewing stepped into the starting five and played like--well, like Elton Brand. During one four-game stretch, he posted three double-doubles, including both games of the Penn-Princeton homestand as he matched up against the Quakers' Geoff Owens and the Tigers' Chris Young...
...graduated from Tokyo University with a degree in French Literature in 1959. He is currently the Samuel Fisher Professor at the Free University of Berlin...