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...smiles. Yes, there was a press badge around his neck. But reporters have feelings, too, and these were people the kid felt happy...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jonnie On The Spot: No Need To Beckon Any More | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...thanks to some good fortune, the kid has a press badge from the Washington Post around his neck...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jonnie On The Spot: No Need To Beckon Any More | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...called ‘bully pulpit’ is a chain around the neck of any president,” said then-Dean Knowles upon Summers’ arrival in 2001. “Say too much, and you are excoriated for exploiting the Harvard name for a personal—or even an institutional—agenda. Say too little, and you’re accused of failing to use the opportunities that your position provides...

Author: By Stephen M. Marks and Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Under the Lights: Summers Addresses National Audience | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...seem to satisfy our appetite for the Mob. We've heard those murky wiretap recordings, seen the grainy surveillance photos, obsessively watched The Godfather and The Sopranos. But we want to know more, whether it's about the prep work for plunging an ice pick into someone's neck (tape the handle to avoid fingerprints) or the supplies needed for going to war with another crime family (bring big pots for marinara sauce to feed everyone at the safe house). Now two breezy new gangland guides, Donnie Brasco's The Way of the Wiseguy (Running Press; 224 pages) and Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mob Life for Dummies | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

...Stoppin' Us Now, which has become the unofficial anthem of Philadelphia's professional sports teams; of a gunshot wound; in Philadelphia. The singer-songwriter who, with his partner Gene McFadden, wrote a string of R.-and-B. hits in the 1970s, was shot in the neck as he and a nephew worked on a car. Police say the nephew may have been the intended target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 24, 2004 | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

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