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...Well, you know we miss those guys. Those guys are great players and great leaders. They have a lot of speed on the field. But we have other guys stepping up, Ryan Tully stepping up, Adam Miller doing the job and stepping up, Gary Sonkur, Keith Howell doing well. Mike Berg on the defensive line is doing a great job as well. I feel like we’re going to surprise a lot of teams this year. People are doubting us because we lost people like Ricky Williamson and Bobby Everett. I think we’re going...
...Levi, a mixed-race child of privilege who takes a weekend job hustling knockoff handbags with Haitian immigrants on the streets of Boston, speaks perfect faux Brooklyn: "This ain't like workin' the counter at CVS! You hustling, man ... That's street." Belsey's southern teaching assistant Smith J. Miller spends half of his appearances trying to explain "pah-point" (Power Point) presentations to the Luddite professor. More striking is Smith's ability to make her motley cast so much more than the caricatures they could become. Belsey's formidable African-American wife Kiki looms large. Her much-discussed...
...doing what I'm supposed to be doing," Henry Miller admits with a laugh. In fact, Miller, 58, a former Xerox Corp. executive who was downsized two years ago, isn't even in the right realm. After spending more than three decades in the impersonal, male-dominated corporate world, Miller now finds himself in women's territory--and he's having the time of his life. He is running a business in a traditionally female-run field: the boarding, training and grooming of dogs. His Boom Towne Canine Center in Farmington, N.Y., is heading for 2005 sales...
...should be retired and sitting on a rocking chair somewhere in North Carolina," says Miller, who has trained and shown various breeds of dogs as a hobby for 30 years and owns eight--seven Papillons and a Bernese mountain dog. "But this is my dream and something I love doing, even if it's not typical for guys my age." Or, he might add, for guys, period...
...Miller is far from alone. Baby boomers who for one reason or another retire early are increasingly starting reverse-gender businesses. The phenomenon is growing at a rate of about 20% a year, estimates John Challenger, chief executive officer of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a Chicago-based international outplacement firm. The boomers, often disenchanted with corporate America, are spurred by a desire to control their own destiny. In striking out on their own, they feel a powerful sense of liberation and of not giving a rip what others think--two emotions that tend to accompany aging, observes Debra Mandel...