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...press release that solicited donations for Griffin's family. "While we think that Gunn's death is unfortunate, the fact is that a number of mothers would have been put at risk today and over a dozen babies would have died at his hands," wrote Treshman, a former metal salesman who now devotes all his time to organizing clinic protests...
...level of his spring term courses would be 2.1. It seems odd that "I'm not doing any work in class" has become a selling point for public office. Further, the efforts to establish a more direct link to students--like Liston's murder of a small forest and salesman-like visitations to every undergraduate room on campus to deliver a position paper--sound more like harassment than real progress...
...Monday, during the third quarter of the Portland Trailblazer's 120-82 thrashing of the Houston Rockets, Rockets guard Vernon Maxwell charged up a dozen rows into the Portland Memorial Coliseum crowd and cold-cocked a 35-year-old fan, Atlanta home products salesman Steve George...
...Clinton may be a fair president at best, buthe is a hell of a candidate," Watanabe said. "Heis not a good salesman when his opposition is soamorphous, [but] if he can zero in on someone, Iwould not write him off as a lot of people have...
...factor. This is a psychological effect Stewart Brand describes in The Media Lab, his 1987 book about M.I.T.'s cutting-edge research facility. It's a sensation familiar to anyone who has spent a day at a high-tech trade show or an hour with a fast- talking computer salesman. Too much happens too fast. There is too much hand waving, too many new things with new names. "The potential for being bamboozled," writes Brand, "is total...