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...inventor of the Cosmic Coaster, a floating beverage holder. ("Center it!" he coached judge Paula Abdul as she set her glass teetering on the contraption.) A white guy who said he flunked the audition because America is "prejudiced and racist." And "Flawless," a wispy-bearded dancer of limited talent who appeared to be a perfect candidate for the job of Britney Spears' eventual third husband...
...fired. But now even profitable companies shed long-time employees at the first whiff of trouble. ?Think like a free agent,? says John Challenger, who runs outplacement firm Challenger Grey & Christmas. ?You need to be able to dump your company before it dumps you.? When companies are hungry for talent, as many are today, you can drive your hardest bargain. Negotiate stock options and performance bonuses, or work on commission. Don?t be shy. After all, if your job may disappear in the next downturn it?s only fair that your pay be hinged to today?s healthy profits...
...economics are highly advanced forms of witchcraft”—Russell has an opinion on most things, and those opinions are usually very funny, if untamed.Beyond a sense of humor, Russell’s instruction of Great Books makes good use of his awe-inspiring linguistic talent. Armed with a whiteboard, a recent discussion of Psalms saw Russell explore the origins and departures of the word “holy” from Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Old Church Slavonic, Arabic, and Lithuanian. (Later, in the midst of serving Armenian cherry-flavored brandy out of a Diet Pepsi bottle...
...develop and work, and putting them in nature and taking money out of the picture which changes everything. You were inviting people to work more collectively in the hope that we might create some kind of community for independent artists. What happened was once we started to develop new talent we realized they had nowhere to go because the mainstream part of the marketplace was not opening up to them, and suddenly there was a need to have a place for their work to be seen and so that?s why I started this festival. Then that opportunity turned into...
...identify the terrorist act at the 1972 Olympics as the starting point for the cycle of violent events being played out today [Dec. 12]. But that cycle started in the 1940s, when Jews fleeing Europe occupied Palestine and drove its people into exile. Spielberg's use of his great talent in making deep and meaningful cinematic material has been a delight to his fans, myself included. But when it comes to the Middle East, it is categorically biased to take a snapshot of events in 1972 and have that define a conflict. Khaled Radwan Cairo...