Word: rides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...front of a T-shirt concession stand which, curiously, seems to be selling shirts with the logo of the Republican presidential tickets. As I wade in closer, though, it becomes clear that the shirt in fact reads "DOPE/HEMP '96". I'm relieved, and with my world view intact, I ride the crowd out toward the bandstand...
...never realized how truly diverse American society is until now. I walk down crowded streets, and ride in crowded subway trains, and without fail, I am the only non-Japanese person to be seen. People are usually too polite to stare, but I realize how different I must look...
Hendrickson's churning account begins with an anonymous man's attempt to throw McNamara overboard during a ferry ride to Martha's Vineyard in 1972. Many of Hendrickson's scenes and anecdotes first appeared in the Washington Post in the mid-'80s. Here the journalist looks further into McNamara's brilliant careers at the Harvard Business School and the Ford Motor Co. The record reveals a top-of-the-line number cruncher steeped in the values of corporate loyalty. But as Secretary of Defense, his mistakes cost lives, not shareholder dividends. And yet his responsibilities required a level of abstraction...
Pulitzer prizewinning Atlanta Constitution cartoonist Mike Luckovich hitched a ride on Air Force One last week and persuaded the President to pen his own caricature. So was it the pain of artistic creation the President was feeling? "He wasn't comfortable doing it," says Luckovich with a laugh, "because he's not too good...
...ride to the museum was similarly enlightening, and a little ironic. To get to the library honoring perhaps the most quintessential Harvard man in history, you take a trip through the modernist brick architecture of UMass-Boston. It doesn't quite conjure visions of the Yard at sunset...