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What he's reluctant to say is that he dispensed with the partisan and sometimes imperious manner of past Denver mayors to accomplish quite a bit during his brief tenure. When Hickenlooper, who is called Mayor Hick, took office in July 2003, he inherited a $70 million budget deficit, the worst in city history. He eliminated the shortfall without major service cuts or layoffs, convincing city employees that they should accept less pay and instituting mandatory leave days (he slashed his salary 25%). Bucking the wisdom that you don't take on city-hall unions, he pushed for an incentive...
...tails, red socks and galluses, and black sneakers with white stripes. When he is feeling rueful and self-mocking, which is fairly often because he is a shy man, he calls himself "America's tallest radio humorist." This, the listener is meant to understand, is the kind of hick distinction that small-town Midwesterners cherish, and Keillor is splendidly and defiantly a small-town Minnesot'n. (The a missing here, Easterners and Westerners, is not pronounced, and neither, of course, is the apostrophe...
...it’s a fitting time to look back on the musical accomplishments of the past year. It was a year that seemed to see it all, but don’t they say that every year? We had a great Brit-rap concept album, an Appalachian hick songwriter cutting a tribute album to his own band, the most drugged-out campfire songs you’ve ever heard, and the long-awaited mainstream success of Modest Mouse. This is all on top of new full-lengths of varying quality from such rock warhorses as Sonic Youth, the Beastie...
...retailer eFashion Solutions and self-described "hick from the sticks," was lingering near the display booth for Rocawear, rapper Jay-Z's apparel line, at a fashion trade show in Las Vegas in February. Suddenly hip-hop impresario Damon Dash, who is Rocawear's celebrity CEO and JayZ's longtime business partner, grabbed Foy's hand and leaned his shoulder against Foy's--"a half a hug," Foy calls it. "eFashion Solutions. Nice," a smiling Dash told Foy. "Real nice." Dash dished out "props" for good reason: powered by eFashion's Web design and marketing, Rocawear is on pace...
...Lamont Jackson, music impresario extraordinaire. Lamont, who's filthy rich and something of a control freak, grooms Mimi for pop stardom--this book is makeover heaven--and introduces her to life in the cutthroat, Cristal-quaffing world of Manhattan's high-rolling hip-hoperati. Mimi starts out a hick but learns fast. Kennedy knows whereof she writes: she used to roll with Russell Simmons' posse, so she's been in all those clubs that would never...