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...Everybody," by Charlie's rock band Drive Shaft. The office phone is answered with a Dharma Initiative-esque "Namaste!" And if we accept that fans can sometimes be the best critics, the skit takes the mickey out of two of the show's most overused transitions - the whooshing sound that indicates an imminent jump in time (either a flashback or a flash-forward) and the absurdly overused cliff-hanger cue. "If you say something cliff-hangery on the show, all the shrill, like crazy dramatic music comes on, and it cuts to black," notes one of the characters...
...delivered two or three sentences on each topic, in rapid fire. For each word, I would come up with two or three sentences that were informative, interesting and at best a little bit fun to listen to. I worked it. Then on the next interview, I handed them a sound bite. I essentially trained myself in sound bites. They can't edit it; they don't need to edit it. It's self-contained. You just slot it right in. It fits in, and it makes you smile. And so, when that started, they kept coming back. And they never...
...sort-of central bank whose charter Congress had allowed to expire the year before. City nearly went under in the Panic of 1837 but was bailed out by the country's richest man, fur magnate John Jacob Astor. Astor's associate Moses Taylor built City into a bulwark of sound finance--big capital reserves, stingy lending standards--that bankrolled the Union during the Civil War and easily withstood the first postwar financial panic...
...sacrifice. From his first words, Barack Obama let us know that even on a day so bright, he was not blinded. Not by the cloud of witnesses in front of him. Not by the lights of cameras sending his words across the planet. That he was willing to sound so somber on his day of celebration tells us many things at once. At a time of scarcity, do not waste opportunities. When the world is watching and willing to follow, tell them where you want to take them. And above all, tell the truth. (See pictures of the Inauguration...
...around 8 a.m., I was awoken by the sound of pounding on my bedroom door. I walked out to the living room to find the apartment in complete disarray, as my family and other relatives who had taken refuge in our home rushed around gathering themselves and some belongings and headed to the door. I was told to get dressed immediately and, having done so, left the apartment with the others...