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...Twenty minutes before the 7 p.m. start of the Precinct 93 Democratic caucus near the airport, the big auditorium in Kurtz School was already divided into camps: John Edwards' and Barack Obama's supporters at the front corners; Hillary Clinton's in the center, and small enclaves of supporters for Joe Biden and Chris Dodd in the rear corners. Edwards had won this middle-class precinct four years ago, but at the outset it was far from clear that anyone had an edge among the 200 or so people who were there...
...certain point newspapers just aren't worth the hassle. When Scott Kurtz wanted to be a cartoonist, he figured he would sell his work to a syndicate like everybody else. When he got started in the mid-1990s there was no such thing as a webcomic. But Kurtz, 36, put his work up online anyway, just to get it in front of people's eyes. "There was no plan, there was no goal, and there was no belief that it was real," Kurtz says. "I stumbled onto it." His strip was about office life at a magazine, and he called...
...Interim president Derek Bok, for thinking he’s actually in charge. 2. Prof. of Second Life Charlie Nesson, for rolling up the windows. 3. The Z-list, for making Jared “Charles Foster” Kushner possible. 4. Kurtz-ian football coach Tim Murphy, for proving you don’t need players to win games. 5. Kaavya Viswanathan, for her contributions to literature. 6.Cine-ass Andrew Bujalski, for really, you know, capturing the zeitgeist or whatever. 7. Pretzel-in-Chief Will Marra, for being a good sport. 8. God, for being cool with everyone thinking...
...respecting the wishes of Native American leaders and communities to change sports mascots they do not view as positive symbols of their communities seems like the least we can do to create a more progressive society where more people have a seat at the table of democracy. ELIZABETH P. KURTZ...
...often mediocre performers, partly because those sin stocks do rack up profits. Through September, the do-good funds averaged a 6.26% return, trailing the average stock fund by 0.6%, according to the research firm Morningstar. "Over time, SRI funds perform about the same as non-SRI ones," says Lloyd Kurtz, a senior portfolio manager at Nelson Capital Management and an expert in the field...