Word: wakes
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ENTERED REHAB. Gavin Newsom, 39, popular San Francisco mayor who became a national lightning rod in 2004 when he "legalized" same-sex marriage and presided over dozens of weddings before the state supreme court voided the unions; in the wake of reports that he had had an affair with the wife of one of his aides and his admission of alcohol abuse; in San Francisco. Though some officials called for his resignation, many declared Newsom--who is being treated as an outpatient--courageous and offered support, albeit cautiously. One member of the city's board of supervisors said...
...author knows the limits of his considerable salesmanship. He offers a very un-Barnum-like aside to his readers: "Wake up, Tinkerbell," he writes. "There's no secret formula. There's no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you--unless your potion is hard work...
...radio allows still-untapped possibilities to disseminate once hard-to-come-by musical events, as evidenced by the Metropolitan Opera’s decision to broadcast over Sirius Satellite Radio.High school and college radio stations offer niche programming that may end up being the future of radio in the wake of the death of monoculture. Disgruntled insiders are learning from past strategies and international manipulations of radio—such as Radio Radcliffe and Radio Universidad in Oaxaca—to re-orient themselves to radio’s possibilities. And in Minot, North Dakota, the failure of corporate radio...
...similar expressions in the works of Nietzsche could have claimed some contextual basis; both James and Nietzsche were concerned with many of the same problems during the same time period. Perhaps this tendency, seen everywhere from popular magazines to university course catalogs, represents an upswing of eclecticism in the wake of post-modern academic approaches, or an effort to fulfill the Wikipedian dream of connecting all knowledge, however tenuously. Maybe it’s all a futile effort to fulfill the promise of the exhilarating subtitle—“In the Maelstrom of American Modernism?...
...downing in a war zone "does not seem due to hostile fire." An accident, in other words. So that means, rather amazingly, that while they don't know what caused it, they claim to know what didn't cause it. And too often it's wishful thinking: In the wake of initial findings, the chance that the enemy actually did bring down the helicopter is acknowledged. (Following Wednesday's crash, the U.S. military said hostile fire did not appear to be the cause, although an Iraqi military officer did tell the Associated Press that an anti-aircraft missile...