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...selection of high-volume accounts on which he can lavish personal attention. About five years ago, he deliberately reduced his slate of buyers from 72 to 48; in the subsequent year, his business increased almost 50%, and since then his work force has more than doubled. "Joe Schmoe's company can knock off our style," he boasts, "but they can't reproduce our service...
This will be my final column as music editor-although my In the Mix column will remain a feature of the music page for the next few months, I'm no longer in charge of selecting what gets covered or what gets written about. Back to being an ordinary schmoe who owns way too many records and CDs. Those of you who need to contact the Crimson regarding music matters can e-mail Thalia Field at music@thecrimson.com...
...Mamet also seems to expect prior knowledge and intelligence from his audience. The first act involves the history of the Jews that I would not have understood unless I had luckily taken Foreign Cultures 56: "Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Before 1914" this semester. After all, would any Joe Schmoe know what a shtetl is? As for the jokes, the one I still could not figure out is the line, "Bushes are steel...
...losing its newly-found freedom to a foreign power. Today, we have a well-regulated militia--the U.S. armed forces--a stable government and hundreds of kids dying from gunshot wounds. Yet the gun lobby is desperate to carry the second amendment to the absurdity of letting any schmoe with a driver's license walk into a Wal-Mart and emerge with an assault rifle or handgun...
...geared toward your average person who isnot necessarily knowledgeable in technical orcomputer fields but is interested in howtechnology is affecting society in everyday life,"Corbett says. "Not your [computer science] major,not your programmer but more along the lines ofthe average schmoe...