Word: midwesternizing
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...hadn’t seemed particularly important at home, where, on various occasions I was mistaken for a Brazilian, an Irishwoman and a Russian. But I do not possess a true cultural identity. I am a mongrel—an improbable amalgam of Midwestern white trash and New York City Jew (which makes for an interesting holiday season, culinarily speaking). Back home, I took my status as a cultural chameleon in stride. In my eastern Massachusetts hometown, where your roots need to extend five generations before you’re counted as native, and where non-natives are branded...
Some of today's IPOs are even more seasoned--like Journal Communications, a Midwestern newspaper and media company, and National Financial Partners, a financial-services firm run by Jessica Bibliowicz, daughter of Citigroup chairman Sandy Weill. Both make money, and both have seen their shares rise in a modest but steady fashion. "Very few companies today are able to raise money on just a wish," says Jay Chandler, head of equity syndication at Merrill Lynch. "That late-'90s-style IPO market is not open for business...
...mother and I have long been fans of the traditional TV makeover. My mom’s personal favorite was the Oprah Mother’s Day makeover extravaganza. In these episodes a harried Midwestern mother of five or six would appear on the show with spittle on her Winnie the Pooh sweatshirt and bags under her eyes the size of walnuts. Her equally prematurely aging (yet surprisingly jolly) husband usually showed up with the kids, and together they begged Oprah to give mom the Mother’s Day makeover of her dreams. The “before?...
...That could be a problem under Federal Election Commission regulations, which bar a candidate from being paid by corporations, universities or labor unions for campaign events. The payment -$25,000 in the case of Midwestern State - could be considered an illegal contribution to Clark's nascent campaign if the FEC found that the speech and related activity dealt with his candidacy in any but the most incidental of ways, said veteran campaign finance lawyer Ken Gross. The potential problem first surfaced in a Washington Post story Wednesday about a speech Clark made at DePauw University in Indiana on Sept...
...According to Midwestern State University vice-president Howard Farrell, Clark "was asked what he would do if he was president on a couple of issues - one question was on the budget, and another was on military affairs, and there may have been more. He answered those." The university did not record the speech...