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From the beginning, Jeff had run his campaign a little bit differently. He raised money like every other politician, but he always focused on building support in the community. Over the course of the campaign, Jeff spoke with over a thousand voters in a series of small meetings (10-30 people) that we called “community coffees.” At these events, Jeff would answer questions for as long as three hours, and he always stuck around to schmooze (yes, Jeff is Jewish) with voters. And he believed, in a passionate way that bordered on fanaticism, that...

Author: By Samuel M. Simon, | Title: Raging Against the Machine | 8/20/2004 | See Source »

...President. It's too bad, because I'm an easygoing, patriotic, friendly sort of guy, and to be so turned off by someone is against my nature. But that's how I feel about Bush, and judging from your story, there must be millions more like me. Robert Carrelli Thousand Oaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 8/18/2004 | See Source »

...They create comprehensive tools that can be used in a thousand different projects,” he said of these projects. “At the Broad, we like to create these tools, and we also like to apply them to projects...

Author: By Stephen M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Broad Institute Finds New Home | 8/13/2004 | See Source »

...Romantic Melodies, a recent CD that scored the biggest week-over-week sales increase in Billboard history, was scorned by one critic for "anesthetic properties (that) would surely soothe ... in a proctologist's waiting room." Another compared Mannheim's violin-heavy harmonies to an orchestra twirling a thousand rolls of toilet paper in the air at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainment: Stoking the Steamroller | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

...erosion. But Sigurdur Arnalds, spokesman for Landsvirkjun, the national power company, which is developing the Kárahnjúkar project, downplays the environmental impact, saying the scheme - which is supported by the national government, local authorities and a significant majority of the general public - will create about a thousand jobs in the sparsely populated east. The project finally got the go-ahead from Iceland's Supreme Court in January, after four years of legal wrangling over the environmental impact assessment submitted by Landsvirkjun. Alcoa's Fjardaál smelting plant, for which ground was recently broken in Reydarfj...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Wealth | 8/8/2004 | See Source »

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