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...nine-to-five.”The group’s focus is on the January launch party for now, but Matthews, whom Rotunno calls a “Jane of all trades,” is still keeping the future in mind, saying she hopes to parlay the magazine’s success into a career producing films.Regardless of the future, Matthews and her team are eager to get their work out to the people. As she recently proclaimed to her staff, “I will go and throw this magazine off the Empire State Building...
...visitors it attracts every day. But just before inking the deal with Google, the San Bruno, Calif.-based startup signed licensing and distribution deals with CBS, Universal and Sony. That, YouTube hopes, will help keep the upstart from suffering the painful demise that hit Napster, which couldn't successfully parlay its huge Web audience into a profitable, legal social network...
...snarky media remarks about his ballooning girth on the campaign trail. The heart blockages that probably would have cost him his life without his 2004 bypass surgery were a long-in-coming slap in the face, waking him up to his problem and to the way he could parlay it into some public good. If it took an old red hunter like Richard Nixon to go to China, perhaps it would take an old chowhound like Clinton to go to war against junk foods...
...Canada's gold-medal female hockey players don't dream of NHL careers. Its cross-country skiers have few chances to parlay their athletic prowess into pro-sports careers. "They're not going to get that, and they know it. It isn't about the money," says Lofstrom. "They're in sport because it's their passion and, corny as it sounds, for the love of sport." Lofstrom expects the female fortitude to continue in 2010. "The depth of the women's field is great. To have experience at these Games going into the next Games on home soil...
...needs of student groups—currently 67 percent is set aside for funding—if the council were to cut back on pursuing more medium-sized social events, like last year’s failed Havana on the Harbor and the Springfest After Party, it could parlay that money into an even bigger concert performance.Of the countless campaigns taken on by the UC every year, little else—if anything—garners as much student scrutiny as when the council comes forth with an idea for campus-wide entertainment. But it is these types of events...