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...writer is tough as a career, especially in America where you're required to reinvent yourself all the time, as I did with the first big success. Then everybody wishes you dead for the next three books! It's not an easy profession. It requires a lot of grit, really, more than people think. You have to just keep at it. Whether you start small or start big the way I did, there are always problems...
Attention, Democrats! Don’t talk with the terms the Right wing has given you. Speak to our generation, the one that was supposed to sweep Kerry into office. Grit your teeth and deal with our country’s irrational ban on doing what Salt’n’Pepa so eloquently urged us all to do in the early 90s. Talk about sex, and my guess is people will listen...
...candidates every time a council election is held. Both Council President-Elect Matthew J. Glazer ’06 and Vice President-Elect Ian R. Nichols ’06 campaigned (on separate tickets) on a promise of a 24-hour library. We hope the Undergraduate Council has the grit to continue the fight for an increasingly necessary student resource...
...happening music club in Asia, and you'll find that Philippine bands are at the center of the action. The bands at Club Quattro, which you called "rock's leading lights," like Oasis and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, are anglophone global brand names. For real musicianship, grit and oomph, the mecca for live bands is the red-light underbelly of Manila, the sin city. That's where you'll hear people who can really play. Live. Kail M. Zingapan Manila...
...Loretta Lynn’s decision to pair up with Detroiter Jack White spawned the confident, immensely listenable Van Lear Rose, a simple country album without any of the polish—a record replete with first takes, proudly flaunting its loose threads, winning on grit and charisma. The extreme optimist might hope that the commercial success these two legends found by committing themselves to old-fashioned, long-forgotten things—like, say, personality and good songwriting—will inspire record labels to demand higher artistic standards in their other acts. And lest we forget, 2004 also...