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...sees speakers over the age of 30 fall into the same trap. Even seniors seem to be comparatively immune—presumably because long years of experience have taught then that TFs really aren’t all that frightening. With maturity comes confidence and with confidence the knack of knowing how to phrase one’s argument in a concise and clear fashion. Given time, the “likes” should fall away altogether...
Singer-songwriter Conor Oberst, 22, an accidental heartthrob with a tremulous voice and a knack for heart-on-sleeve ballads, is the other Omahan on the radar. Last month his new group, Desaparecidos, released its first album, Read Music/Speak Spanish, but he had already garnered a legion of teenage and college fans with his other band, Bright Eyes. He started playing in Omaha bands as a bespectacled Harry Potter look-alike and gradually came into the date-worthiness that has helped land his picture in Seventeen and Jane. Like the Faint, who mix effete dance rhythms with heavy guitars...
...secret of Gold's success has been an exceptional knack for supply-chain management. Every shipment passes under the watchful eye of a full-time statistician, a "master planner" who constantly surveys retailers and wholesalers, anticipating their demands so the factory can be ready with the necessary personnel and raw materials. In 2001 mad-cow disease had most manufacturers scrambling to fill orders for leather furniture, but not Gold: when the epidemic first made headlines, he bought up $5 million worth of South American hides, enough to keep the club chairs rolling for the next eight months. Result...
...Kelly had bad luck in midlife and later. Betsy left him; his second wife, Jeanne Coyne, whom he?d known since Pittsburgh (and who had previously been married to Donen), died young of leukemia; he lost his knack and clout in Hollywood; and the genre he loved disappeared. So I?d like to think that achieving the nonchalant masterpiece of "Singin? in the Rain" - a greatness that, for once in his career, never revealed whatever agony went into it - gave Kelly immediate and sustaining joy. At one of the many tributes he received late in his life, he said...
...Skocpol, Harvard Faculty are not used to being put so openly on the defensive. “He’s not a big respecter of established routine,” she says. “Universities are highly ritualized institutions, and he doesn’t have a knack...