Word: musing
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...Woodhouse. One day his boss Don Lockwood said to Nash, "Why don't you send some of your verse to The New Yorker, you old salty fish, you?" Ogden obliged, and his first poem appeared in the January 11, 1930, issue. He kept hoping to serve his muse and write verse that was serious, But with his marriage to Frances Leonard in 1931, followed quickly by the emergence of two daughters, he also hoped to make a living, so he continued at what people paid him (very well) to do, which was to fill the space between prose...
...Khartoum. SOMALIA Militia Battles At least 28 people were killed and more than 25 injured in fighting between rival militias in Mogadishu's residential Medina district. Many of those who died were civilians. Thousands fled their homes after indiscriminate gunfire and shelling broke out between the forces of Muse Sudi Yalahow, one of the former capital's most powerful militia leaders, and his former ally Omar Mohammed Filish. Somalia has had no effective administration since 1991. Afghanistan New Army Afghanistan began building a national army as its first battalion of soldiers graduated from a U.S. special-forces training program...
...Penelope Muse Abernathy, 50, who became publisher of HBR in 1999, also served as publisher of Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP), HBR’s parent organization. Her resignation follows “a reorganization that has discontinued the divisional structure of the company,” according to a written statement released Monday by HBSP...
...much brand recognition? Sony must think so. It sued Austrian wholesaler Time Tron for using "Walkman" to describe rival products, but Austria's top court ruled the term was too universal to be owned by any one firm. Please, No Equitygate H Private equity firm Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst is hiring former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to help it build a European strategy. Hey, it worked for Nixon. Aggressive Treatment It might be time for the drug industry to pop an anti-anxiety pill. Twenty-nine U.S. states sued Bristol-Myers Squibb, alleging it blocked cheaper versions...
...comedy a young man's game, like skateboarding or sex? Writing jokes, creating droll characters--these take ambition, ingenuity and energy, and after decades of devotion to this voracious muse, a fellow can get pooped. He still knows the rhythms (ba-da-dum or ba-da-bing) but has run out of witty variations. He's vamping, working from the Catskills version of muscle memory. His obsession is just a job; he's confecting comedy not from inspiration but from habit...