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...historically-demonstrated tendency to fade away whenever free alternatives exist. Newspapers and television networks no longer have a stranglehold on our information intake—they may still have a good grasp on pure news (which is expensive and difficult to gather well), but anyone with a modem can jot down some opinions, call it an op-ed, and slap it up on a web page for the world...
...Buffalo cantor, he started out as a pianist and band vocalist and began writing tunes for revues and nightclubs like Harlem's Cotton Club, including I Love a Parade, I've Got the World on a String and III Wind. A retiring man who liked to jot down musical ideas while walking the dog or riding in a car, he worked with such leading lyricists as Ted Koehler, Johnny Mercer, E.Y. Harburg and Ira Gershwin. Many of his hits, such as Let 's Fall in Love, Blues in the Night, That Old Black Magic and One for My Baby...
...cleanliness of the rooms, the smileyness of the concierge and the juiciness of the restaurant's tenderloin-and-shrimp brochette. His approach is straightforward. "I act like any other guest," he says, but one who pays unusually close attention to detail. Occasionally he heads to the rest room to jot down observations, but mostly he just takes mental notes...
...writing. I go through different periods when I'll write a bunch of things, then go through long spells where I don't really write anything. I just jot down little phrases and things I overhear, people talking to me, stuff like that. Usually when I have some kind of deadline pressure, I'll get prolific. When I do work, I work for long periods of time, then I lay back for a minute. I'll work for, like, 24 or 30 hours, 14 hours at a time, then readjust after that. Then I do it again four or five...
...style and meticulous attention to detail, he has built alliances across the political spectrum during his 17 years in the Senate. "The biggest strength he has is that he always keeps his word," says liberal Vermont Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy. Reid keeps note cards in his coat pocket to jot down favors requested by colleagues who buttonhole him--and to record when they're done. A skilled legislative tactician who practically camps out on the Senate floor, Reid was Daschle's point man for secretly convincing Vermont's other Senator, James Jeffords, to ditch the Republican Party...