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...back, taking requests from the customers and showing off his scratching skills. A few local rappers wandered in and out, rifling through the record displays and talking to the four hip hop aficionados who run the place. Jesse Christopher, the loud-mouthed head of marketing for the upstart record shop, remained upbeat, placing calls to his friends in the Boston hip hop scene, inviting them to come down and try their hand at the mic. Anthony Bushu, the “mad mellow” store manager, hung back behind the counter with a Heineken and watched over the scene...
He’d worked there for almost a decade, first as chief economist at the World Bank and eventually as Bill Clinton’s Treasury Secretary. In that time, Summers had earned a reputation as a politically careless upstart who frequently overstepped his bounds and landed on a lot of toes in the process. His untucked shirts and mismatched socks cast him as something of a Washington outlaw who wasn’t afraid to question his superiors or stir up a little controversy. Early in his political career, Summers had been hailed as a proud wunderkind with...
Jack shows up and I tipsily berate him for leaving me alone in this wasteland of dirty warehouses. (Lucky the Peterborough kid was there.) Jack’s writing for an upstart magazine. I’m there under the pretense of writing for someone or something. I have no plan to do so. I just wanted the ticket...
With Dartmouth’s win at Yale on Saturday, the Crimson was forced to hold serve against the upstart Bears in order to stay within a game of the Big Green. Holsey said she was not surprised a sufficiently talented Brown team had upset Dartmouth the night before...
...phone companies with a sense of foreboding. Especially unnerving was the announcement earlier this month that 130-year-old AT&T, the American former monopoly carrier that not long ago was the oldest, biggest and baddest telecom firm on the planet, was about to be swallowed up by upstart regional player SBC?providing a sobering reminder that in the information age, no institution is too big to fail if it squanders its competitive edge. "Technology is advancing fast," says Shuichi Deguchi, senior manager of NTT's broadband-Internet promotion department. "A complete transformation is required to make sure we stay...