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...GOOD LIFE Two days after Christmas, it’s a freezing 54 degrees in California, and the streets are slick from rain the night before. It’s been a wet season, Zuckerberg says, not at all like the endlessly sunny summer that the TheFacebook’s production team first enjoyed when they moved out in June...
...roasts were often brief and the Men and Women of the Year often left shortly after the production. Past Crimson articles refer to the awards as “slick p.r.” and “publicity stunts”; in 1973, Crimson arts writer Dwight L. Cramer ’74 wrote, “The publicity engine runs smoothest in the Pudding’s absurd Man and Woman of the Year Awards...
...Ghraib Expressway. "We're taking fire in the rear!" radioed a truck driver. Within seconds, the entire convoy was under a barrage from an estimated 150 insurgents lurking in roadside shacks. Bullets, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars peppered the vehicles. Fuel, pouring from punctured tankers, turned the highway as slick...
...Khan's customers because hundreds or thousands of them are needed to make highly enriched uranium in quantities sufficient for a weapon). Utilizing a variety of contacts in Europe, Asia and Africa, Khan built a network of factories and salesmen that covered the globe. There was even a slick advertising brochure promoting the group's wares...
...Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane during the band's 1960s heyday; of cancer; at his home in Petaluma, Calif. The onetime jazz drummer provided the beat for such hits as White Rabbit and Somebody to Love, but his frequent grumbling and his affair with the group's singer Grace Slick--he regularly threatened to quit the band with Slick in tow--caused tensions, and he left in 1970. He went on to play in other bands, including New Riders of the Purple Sage, before retiring...