Word: musician
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...Boss, but even Springsteen cannot compete with the current contest for Commander in Chief. "I'm a mild-mannered rock musician of a certain age," he says, laughing. "My powers are limited. All I ask is for the right to have an opinion and the right to share it, same as anybody else." Of course, being a rock star, he's doing it in a big way. After 30 years of not taking a side in electoral politics, Springsteen announced in August his support for John Kerry, that he would headline the 11-state Vote for Change tour (that launched...
Greenspan, a former jazz musician (he played clarinet and sax) and a disciple of free-market philosopher Ayn Rand, frequently confronts such agonizing choices. As the Clinton era drew to a close, he correctly foresaw the brewing bubble in high-tech stocks. He searched for a way to alert investors, famously referring to an "irrational exuberance" building up in the stock market. But he refused to say more, believing a sudden collapse in share prices would carry more risk than allowing the market to discover the bubble itself. The high-tech balloon continued to inflate for several years after...
...following pages, you will meet some of them. There's Hiroshi Tsutsumi, who tries to predict the behavior of one of the most fickle, most influential demographics in the world: the Tokyo hipster. Former jazz musician (and current Federal Reserve Chairman) Alan Greenspan has been staring the future in the face for years and has to put our money (and his) where his mouth is. Peter Schwartz is the man whom Senators, CEOS and movie directors go to for previews of the future. He predicted the rise of OPEC in the 1970s and the fall of the World Trade Center...
...backstage banter with local DJs, the children of corporate sponsors and whomever the Teamsters want to impress. The music industry calls this compulsory session the meet and greet, and because the spontaneity is scheduled and the patronage barely disguised, it is often the grimmest 15 minutes of any touring musician's day. But Tim McGraw loves it. He has his road crew set up a tent with a tiny stage and shabby-chic furniture. He keeps everyone plied with Bud Light, the beer he hawks in TV commercials. Then he saunters in, clasps each outstretched hand, delivers a perfectly timed...
...happily settled into New York City life, juggling duties as a co-owner (along with an ex-boyfriend) of Filthmart, a vintage-clothing store in lower Manhattan, and producing a TV special, an homage to country singer Waylon Jennings, the father of her live-in boyfriend, country musician Shooter Jennings...