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...quiet confidence and easygoing physicality. The younger of two brothers, Tsuyoshi became obsessed with music while his peers were becoming passionate about his dad's sport. His mother, an elementary school teacher, remembers scolding a 12-year-old Tsuyoshi for cutting cram school to hit a Yellow Magic Orchestra gig at the Budokan...
...view finder so an observer can see. "I look more free here," she says as her image wiggles across the tiny screen. "I told myself before I went on that I could do this, and went out to have a good time." She fast-forwards to tonight's gig and frowns. "My performance tonight needed more power...
...make furniture!” as a post-graduate friend of mine does, or worse yet, “I’m a writer!” Recognized institutions are required in all answers. For some, an investment banking gig might be the best way to exercise a love of numbers, and a Ph.D. the best route to running a lab before menopause. But the majority of Harvard students are not striving for their own labs or number crunching ecstasy. Instead, after 16 years of hardcore academic achievement, most Harvard students are still racing ahead in their institutions...
...another point, an audience member asked Adams to wish “David in the second row” a happy birthday. Adams responded, to the tune of “Happy Birthday,” with impromptu verse: “Thanks for interrupting my gig / Thanks for interrupting my gig / It’s all about you David / Thanks for interrupting my gig.” Even through this tomfoolery, though, his self-possession was unmistakable...
Therefore, the only sane conclusion is that Bush would only resort to war if the cost of inaction becomes greater. It is simply cynical to assign any other motives to the president on this issue. The Commander-in-Chief gig is not one that anybody takes lightly, and, tempting as it may be, we cannot pretend Bush is acting out of greed for oil or some weird complex to avenge his father. To do so is both ignorant and dangerous...