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David A. Wallach ’07, the lead singer of Harvard band Chester French, which opened the show for Breuer along with New York comedian Pete Correale, also said Breuer was a success...
Name recognition and deep pockets can go a long way in politics, and beer magnate Pete Coors boasts both in the race to replace retiring Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell. Coors, 58, faces state attorney general Ken Salazar, 49, who has done a savvy job of playing up his humble rancher's roots; as he drives around in a pickup truck, the pro-choice Catholic calls for prescription-drug imports from Canada and a rollback of the Patriot Act. While attacking pork-barrel spending, Coors has stressed his business acumen and conservative values (favorite book: the Bible). Lately he has gotten...
After House majority leader Tom DeLay redrew his old rival Martin Frost's district out of existence a year ago, Frost, a veteran Congressman, decided to stand in another one, the 32nd. The incumbent there, freshman Pete Sessions, suddenly faces a pit bull of a campaigner in a battle that will probably be the most expensive House race in the country, with each side expected to spend $4 million. With the candidates trading charges of poster stealing and arguing over who is tougher on child kidnappers, neither one may come out of this ugly fight looking like a winner...
...future, Bogusky predicts, viral ads will offer even more participation. "The more stuff people can do themselves with these ads, the better," he says. "It's more fun, but they also feel like they own it. They feel more empowered as consumers." Pete Blackshaw, a founder of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association, predicts that viral ads will increasingly harness technology like camera phones. Since "moblogs," or group photo blogs, get tens of thousands of camera-phone images a day, viral marketers are gearing up to let customers chime in visually as well as verbally about their love...
...mutineers of the H.M.S. Bounty. IMPRISONED. MARTHA STEWART, 63, domestic advice guru; sentenced to five months in prison for lying to federal investigators about her sale of ImClone stock; in Alderson, West Virginia. Stewart is appealing the verdict, but last month asked to begin serving her sentence immediately. DIED. PETE McCARTHY, 52, English-Irish travel writer and broadcaster; of cancer. He was best known for his keen observations and deadpan humor in McCarthy's Bar, a meander through Ireland in which he "never pass[ed] a bar that has your name on it." He followed that book's success with...