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Harvey says the wooden man who is burned toward the end of the week doesn't signify anything. But as it was at the first Burning Man, it is the symbol that attracts the crowds. "That first man was just 8 ft. tall, and it was enough," Harvey says. "Something bigger than they are--that's all people need. It's at least enough to inspire a leap of faith." As if on cue, Maid Marian, his girlfriend and a partner in the LLC, starts tearing into a shirtless, bearded man, screaming and cursing at him for authorizing...
...Team Gore's convention-planning meeting on Wednesday morning, campaign chairman Bill Daley offered the ultimate reward: 100 floor passes to anyone who could get former Treasury Secretary and gazillionaire Robert Rubin to utter the mantra, "Fight for working families." It was meant jokingly, using Rubin as a symbol of Wall Street power...
Kanter says she gets her real kicks these days mostly from the Sarosi-Kanter Charitable Foundation that she and her husband Marc started with $2 million. And she knows half a dozen other current and former Microsofties who have started foundations. "The status symbol of the '80s was a BMW. The status symbol of this decade is having your own foundation named after you," says a Microsoft retiree, who naturally has her own. The move certainly makes financial sense for folks like Kanter. After typical start-up costs of about $20,000, assets of more than...
...killer, it seems, was never on Everson's bad-trick list. He left no decipherable signature: the bags tied around his victims' heads were more likely an effort to contain the blood than a symbol of suburban anonymity. Even FBI psycho profilers were stymied, offering only that the perpetrator was probably a white male age 20 to 40. When a suspect was finally arrested, hookers recalled him as a regular, paying cash several times a month for a $28.95 room at the Spokane Budget Saver Motel. "He was a good trick," says Everson. "He was never weird. The women were...
...culture of privilege is slowly fading into the distance as the boats of New Labor take off with the wind at their back. Our small victory was merely a symbol of a sea change occurring all around...