Word: text
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Brought together largely by e-mail and city-wide text messages, Indians from across the country's religious and ethnic spectrum marched together in Mumbai. The rally's most conspicuous demographic, though, was of another sort altogether and one rarely seen massed in protest: the affluent middle class. "This is surreal," says Dhruv Wadia, a young advertising professional, pointing to a gaggle of middle-aged women, a few sporting Louis Vuitton handbags. "All the aunties have showed up." (See a video of Mumbaikars taking to the street...
...hoping to collect more than $100 million in coins and small bills. It's an old-school way of raising money and the Army knows it, so this year, the charity is supplementing its famous Red Kettle Campaign with a Twitter feed, a Facebook widget, and a cell phone text message donation program in addition to its recently introduced online kettle program. The Army, short on volunteer bell ringers, even pays some people to coax passersby into donating their spare change for the organization's causes, which include disaster relief, soup kitchens, drug and alcohol counseling and homeless shelters...
...Highlights: 1. The Great BAPEs: Nobody's going to buy this book to read the articles, few of which consist of more than a page of loosely spaced text. It's the photo spreads - especially of the clothes, and especially of famous people wearing the clothes - that will make most readers stop and gawk. In that respect, *A Bathing Ape pays off. Aside from J-Pop starlets and Japanese celebrities like club DJ Cornelius and artist Takashi Murakami, the book's cameos read like an urban teenager's iTunes playlist: N.E.R.D.'s Pharrell Williams, DJ Shadow, M.I.A., T.I., Young Jeezy...
...mentioned your parents' emphasis on academics. Who else has been an inspiration for you? Garrett Johnson, who won the Rhodes Scholarship in 2006 at Florida State, is another. He and I have grown very close. He helped me through the Rhodes application process - he would send me text messages every day with interview prep questions - and has mentored me with how to deal with the media. If I have a question about females, he'll give me advice. He's somebody who I trust, respect, admire. Then there's Bill Bradley. He played basketball at Princeton, played for the Knicks...
Keep up a constant stream of e-mails and texts, but keep in mind that they're rife with potential for misinterpretation. A dashed-off note mentioning a brilliant new co-worker might have been idle chatter for you, but it could throw your partner into paroxysms of jealousy - particularly between couples who miss each other, haven't seen each other in weeks and might be feeling a little insecure. So, that means you have to talk. West says he and his girlfriend communicate through "daily e-mail and text messages, and many phone calls in a week." He often...