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While the Living Wage Campaign was not directly advocating for casual employees, their mantra of $10-an-hour for all Harvard employees and their very public Mass. Hall rallies helped put the spotlight on Harvard's often overlooked workers...
...have been so down on politics, but he had to find an explanation of how the hell this happened." Politics had almost rejected him--it must be broken. He declared it so in 1995, saying he would not seek re-election. He spent two years out of the spotlight and as happy as he'd ever been--making money, giving speeches, getting to know Silicon Valley and Wall Street, positioning himself for an outsider's run at the White House...
...passion, the one that makes you get up out of bed each morning even when you went to sleep just an hour before. CityStep is not (gasp!) the passion that drives my life. It is only the cry of my inner dancer, begging to get her moment in the spotlight...
...thrive, it's going to have to drop such pretension. Sure, a magazine can cover celebrities, but the people who run it just can't be obsessed with becoming celebrities themselves. Unfortunately for Talk's staff, Brown may have already ruined that for them by grabbing for the spotlight rather than letting the magazine naturally shine...
...spotlight obsession isn't the only problem with Talk. For starters, Talk needs a redesign. The black cover is awful. It looks sinister and sleazy, which may attract a certain audience, but not the intellectual yet celebrity-obsessed audience Talk wants. The inside design is just as bad. Maybe their "European visual sensibility," as Brown calls it in the first issue, just doesn't translate across the pond. It looks like a poor man's Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone is innovative in its design with its varying type faces and sometimes crowded text; Talk is just an imitator with...