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...Started out in Pittsburgh, where he became a Top 40 music DJ and went by the name Jeff Christie. He turned political in Sacramento, Calif. by creating a politically incorrect persona called El Rushbo, then moved to New York and went national on WABC...
...This was the chord that had been missing in the first dour month of Obama's presidency - not so much optimism as confidence, the sense that he was not only steering the presidency, but loving the challenge of it. It was the quality that distinguished Franklin Roosevelt's public persona, guided by the motto that F.D.R. had in his office: "Let unconquerable gladness dwell." (See the 10 greatest speeches of all time...
...single.” Psychotic tendencies aside, this tragic case demonstrates the reality-making power of labels and begs the questions: What makes the online construction of a relationship status any less ephemeral or more valid than the online construction of a new, and inauthentic, persona? Since when did a relationship have to be publicly confirmed and classified in order for it to mean something? And what motivates our desire to define our relationship for everyone else—isn’t it enough for us to define our relationship with the only other person whom it concerns?Surely...
...burning issue it once may have been. No longer the ringleader of iconoclastic innovators, he’s the frontman for only his overindulged self. No longer politically relevant, he can pontificate on matters of state all he wants, but the papers don’t really care. The persona of Morrissey has lost its allure; there’s nothing to conceal the insufficiency of his music. His newest attempt, “Years of Refusal,” is overwrought and ill-conceived, the result of a warped ego that has not yet realized its time has come...
...forge her way into the Extension School, Columbia, and California State University, Fullerton. A federal judge in Greenville characterized her as a scheming manipulative criminal, according to the Associated Press. Reed’s scam was unveiled in 2006 when she applied for a job in Manhattan, using the persona of Brooke Henson, a South Carolina woman reported missing since 1999. She was indicted in September 2007 in Greenville S.C., on charges of mail fraud, wire fraud, and identity theft, Ed Donovon, a Secret Service spokesman, told the Crimson in an interview in 2008. The Secret Service—best...