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...three weeks had gone by, everything was fine, and I had gone on a mini-vacation. I was like, 'I'm getting out!' and was gone for a week, and then everything was fine, and then there was the last incident. 'My Favorite Poet,' as I call this person, whoever it is, revisited my door again with more foulness written on a flyer on the door. I just freaked out, and I was like, 'I have had enough.' I met with the Masters again, and they called the police. Police came, and Officer Kevin Bryant, who's sort...
Public TV too often likes its art tame and respectable, but this documentary mini-series--which examines Edouard Manet's Olympia, Huckleberry Finn, 1920s jazz and racy 1930s movies--recovers what was shocking in art we have (mostly) grown comfortable with. The enlightening Manet episode unpacks 19th century French society to show how a nude courtesan roiled the salons by staring frankly at the viewer; the Finn segment examines a contemporary push to pull the book (charged with racism) from a school. The series comes down on the side of art, natch, but deserves credit for arguing, not assuming...
Childish feelings of mini-deprivation like this are, I suspect, helping fuel a run on luxury products for kids by parents who feel that their darlings should never go without. The robust economy and stock market have created a lot of new prosperity, and parents are increasingly swaddling their children in cashmere crib bedding, bespoke baby ball gowns and tuxedos for toddlers. At the same time, they are worried that their kids take wealth for granted, and struggle to prepare their teens for a less lavish life once they get out on their own. Inevitably, some Wall Street investment advisers...
Chambers is customer obsessed, a characteristic that will serve the company well as it moves into consumer markets. He discovered the dogma of customer service as a salesman at IBM and and then saw firsthand the cost of losing customer focus when he joined mini-computer maker Wang in the late '80s. As Wang's business eroded--in part because Wang didn't listen to customers--Chambers, the top sales executive, was forced to lay off 4,000 workers. He vows never to do that again, even if it means keeping his company leaner and meaner than seems necessary. "Laying...
...McCain," add Carney, "it plays into his whole thing of billing himself as a fresh alternative." Perhaps more important for McCain, it may help insulate him from his recent FCC mini-scandal. The Arizona senator, who has staked his campaign on campaign finance reform, has been red in the face since allegations surfaced that he'd tried to sway federal regulators in favor of a cable company that contributed to his campaign. The irony in all this is that the Democratic race - which had been billed as a party-defining ideological war - has been bereft of much drama. While Keyes...