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Childs says his two careers in listening have always run parallel to one another. After graduating from SUNY Binghamton with a joint degree in philosophy and psychology, he built furniture while serving in a New York hospital’s psychiatric ward. A chance encounter with a 70-year-old luthier (guitar maker) in rural Maine inspired him to begin his first apprenticeship crafting violins. In 1988, he opened his own shop in Cambridge and began studying part-time to become a psychologist, graduating from the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology in 1998. “Violinmaking holds...
...hosts are winners--we'd trade Rhodes for San Francisco's Bernie Ward, the Texas populist Jim Hightower or the class act of Tough Crowd, Greg Giraldo--but there's still a wealth of useful, funny infotainment on offer 15 hours a day. Franken got steely Richard Clarke to crack a joke about majority leader Bill Frist's attack on him (Frist "obviously was on puppy uppers when he gave that speech") and persuaded best-selling troublemaker Michael Moore to cozy up to Al Gore ("Hello, Al. Or should I say 'Mr. President'?"). On the morning show, Public Enemy...
There was the talent-laden Leon Smith, who went from a second-round draft pick to a Dallas hospital’s psychiatric ward for an attempted suicide, before he played even one NBA game...
...Boylston Prize for Elocution was founded in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston. The contest is open to sophomores, juniors and seniors in good academic standing...
...People don’t believe in heroes anymore,” Roger Ward whispers to Mel Gibson in the climactic scene of the 1979 shoot-’em-up epic Mad Max. Strangely enough, twenty-five years later, the king of blockbusters is still making R-rated epics about the bloody trials of troubled heroes. But now, Gibson has traded the race car for the cross...