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...cars at age 8. In the early 1980s, his sketches caught the attention of an aunt, who wrote to Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca for advice. A few weeks later, a letter urging Gilles to attend design school arrived from K. Neil Walling, then Chrysler's design chief. Following a stint at an engineering college in Montreal, where Gilles says he spent too much time "drawing cars in class," he eventually enrolled in Detroit's College for Creative Studies...
...blossomed so suddenly; TV worked like that in its infancy. In 1951 Phyllis parlayed a research job at Theater Arts magazine into a stint producing a quarter-hour chat-fest, ?Footlights and Klieglights.? The local NBC affiliate WNBT (later WNBC) paired Phyllis? theater show with another 15-min. effort she produced, ?Bringing Up Mother.? For most of the week, Phyllis said, the show offered ?the usual junk presented for housewives,? while on Fridays it addressed serious issues. Four days of Martha Stewart, one day of Ms. magazine...
...field when it came to choosing something for Year 10 work experience. Ideally, he'd have played footy - Australian Rules - like he does for his club on Sunday afternoons. But that wasn't going to happen. So he arranged what he figured was the next best thing: a stint with the Melbourne Cricket Club, which manages the game's grandest stage. It's a Friday morning and Josh is bent over in the middle of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, using a paint-dipped broom to embellish one of the 50-m arcs for tomorrow night's Brisbane vs. Collingwood game...
...near universal verdict among Democrats and Republicans last week was that Kerry had gone with his strongest choice. But Edwards is not without his vulnerabilities. As the Kerry campaign played up Edwards' stint on the Senate Intelligence Committee, his foreign trips and his sessions with world leaders, Republicans moved in quickly to portray him as little more than a pretty face who is still at heart a slick, millionaire trial lawyer. At one point a few weeks ago, even Kerry's stepson Chris Heinz had ventured, "We may need someone with stronger credentials on foreign policy." Bush, campaigning in Edwards...
...core Army Ranger unit in Afghanistan's Shah-e-Kot Valley, as well as a surprisingly thoughtful meditation on the philosophy of combat. Next month General Tommy Franks will release American Soldier (HarperCollins; 352 pages), which is said to be a colorful and at times unsparing account of his stint overseeing American and coalition forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. The publisher is printing a million copies...