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...irony and magic of Einhorn were that countless establishmentarians were his friends too. Ira had a "brilliant network," says George Keegan, a Sun Oil Co. executive who later formed a touchy-feely neighborhood-development group with Einhorn. "He knew enough corporate people to get our projects funded simply by strolling into people's offices and asking for the money...
...valid English word? if so, can "U mke me blush" pass as a line of poetry? Britain's Guardian newspaper thinks it qualifies. Victor Keegan, the newspaper's Online editor, last week announced the winner of its first text message poetry competition. Hetty Huges, a 22-year-old university student, won the $1,500 prize for her text poem...
...selection so they could vote for the winning ode - again by text messaging their ratings to the judges on their mobiles. The competition's main rule: no poem could exceed 160 characters, the maximum that can fit on many cell-phone screens. "Telepoetry is the newest literary form," says Keegan. "We are at the start of a literary and communications revolution...
...lucrative stream of revenue for mobile service providers. Text messaging is priced separately from the flat fee charged by mobile telephone providers. It's not a bad sideline for media outlets like the Guardian, either. Though the newspaper has not disclosed any readership increases from its telepoetry contest, Keegan says participation was "massive," with more than double the 3,000 entries the newspaper expected...
...military historian John Keegan ended his classic study The Face of Battle (published a year after the last helicopters lifted ignominiously off the American embassy roof in Saigon) by saying that, what with Vietnam and nuclear weapons, "the suspicion grows that battle has already abolished itself." It is pretty to think so. What we have left, in any case, is chronic but localized messes--and terrorism of the McVeigh or bin Laden variety...