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...that’s the story of how I met Beck. The lesson? If you’re ever interviewing your hero, don’t be afraid to go off-script. He might thank you for it later. But then again, don’t pass up the official suggestion to ask some “unprofessional” questions. Otherwise, you might miss an opportunity to sing some sex jams with a man who changed your life...
...Obviously, John Kerry's lamblike response to the attacks on his character during the 2004 presidential campaign, especially those emanating from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, is very much on Democrats' minds in 2006. But Schumer learned the lesson in his Senate race against Alfonse D'Amato in 1998. "Fonzi attacked me for being soft on crime, and we came right back at him with a tough series of ads with the tagline 'Alfonse D'Amato: too many lies for too long.'" Schumer says that perhaps the most important ad run by a Democrat this year appeared in July...
Nothing, however, focuses the mind, body and spirit like the prospect of winding up underneath a 1,400-lb. palomino. The lesson in cowpoking is that the whole operation relies on getting an innately stupid animal--no, not your boss, wise guy--to execute a job that's critical to the process. To get an entire herd moving, cowboys need organizational and communications skills that are, the trainees hope, readily applicable when they're home from the range. The chief financial officer of a hospitality company, for example, said he needed to "get more done more efficiently and faster, always...
Everywhere the Heath brothers look, it seems, there is a lesson to be learned. The Nature Conservancy gives tracts of land spiffy names like the Mount Hamilton Wilderness--a better ring than "1,875 square miles of environmentally critical ecosystem"--and donations perk up. Chalk that up to the power of being concrete. The Texas department of transportation casts Dallas Cowboys and Houston Astros in testosterone-soaked ads telling drivers "Don't mess with Texas," and roadside litter drops 29% in a year. Consider it a score for an emotional appeal to identity--a way of getting litterbugs to believe...
While a little bit of political humor may be okay, entertainers should generally stick to their act. Most people would rather be entertained than given a political lesson, a fact seemingly lost on Streisand at Madison Square Garden on Oct. 9, when she seriously misread her fans by pushing her agenda just a little too much. The results were predictably absurd and decidedly unfunny...