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...amps, surf boards and hot sand. They represent home for me in an idealized, totally inaccurate kind of way. But, sitting on the banks of a river across the country from the ocean I know so well, the familiar songs didn’t seem out of place. The crowd??including babies and senior citizens, business suits and flip-flops, new initiates and old fans—claimed the Beach Boys as their...
...recession. It was still light out when we arrived, and while the two performers started the show combining on classics like John’s “Your Song” and Joel’s “My Life,” the crowd??mostly aged middle and beyond—seemed more concerned with finding the bathroom than listening to a pair of Rock and Roll Hall of Famers. As for the Hall of Famers themselves, they were belting out tunes with the enthusiasm of the house band at the resort in the Catskills...
...We’re not going to agree on everything, but we do agree that spending is out of control.” His colleagues, however, were politically clumsy. Peter Schiff, an economist who Libertarians hope will be the Republican candidate against Dodd, spoke to the crowd??for an agonizing half hour. In his speech, he dissected the history of the Federal Reserve—the most boring topic he could choose—and the crowd??s attention melted away...
...crowd of raucous Boston fans had no qualms flaunting their hometown pride. But neither did a young Eliot Spitzer, a native New Yorker and student at Harvard Law School who sat among the season ticket holders shamelessly cheering the Knicks and brazenly booing the crowd??s clear favorite...
...left Harvard on the day of the Harvard-Yale game and I could hear the cheers in the crowd??I felt like Charlie Chaplin with my knapsack on my back,” he said of the day he left to study for a year at the University of Utah. After writing for the daily newspaper at Utah, Nelson returned to triumphantly attain a spot on the Editorial Board. Two years later, he was elected president...