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...living as a jazz musician. There he wrote and performed a new song every day. This persistence led him to a recording contract, and he relocated to Los Angeles, where he pragmatically capitalized on every opportunity he came across. “A lot of people are very precious of what they work on—I fully respect that. I was working up to improving my skills and learning how to first write the song,” he said. After working as a music producer and penning a few successful songs for TV (including the theme...
Remember those precious high school years? The dabbling in drugs, alcohol, and those first awkward forays into love and sex? That time when we didn’t have pestering things like midterms, problem sets, or eRecruiting to worry about? OK, maybe most Harvard students spent most of their teenage years saving Darfur and curing AIDS. But whether you got all of those beautiful awakenings in high school or during a crash-course on one hazy night on your first weekend at Harvard, they were undoubtedly great times. Watching Sophia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette?...
...global conversation these days, there's one constant, no matter where you are - concern over the state of the planet. Whether it's climate change, pollution, habitat depletion, a lack of clean water or the loss of precious species, people everywhere worry about where we are going and how we can ensure that we hand the earth on to the next generation in as good a shape as possible...
...only crack these people will ever acknowledge in a Sox player. As a Minnesotan exiled to this East Coast Elba, I was at best an agnostic in Red Sox Nation - a non-believer who found the franchise and its fans a little too precious. The local liquor stores carry "Schilling Chardonnay" and "Manny Being Merlot." In my days as a sportswriter, I had nosed the bouquet of many a Sox player, and never thought of pairing one with Brie...
...operations. The Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft will provide our forces with unprecedented increases in speed and range as well as critically needed troop-lift, medevac and cargo capabilities. We have no doubts that the Marine Corps' V-22 Ospreys are ready for their most important mission: carrying our most precious assets--Marines and sailors--into combat...