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...contemporaries Keith Moon and John Bonham, Mitchell nevertheless helped revolutionize rock drumming with his finesse. As journalist and musician Felix Contreras noted, Mitchell held his sticks like a jazz player, lightly between his thumb and two fingers, sometimes losing them during performances, to little negative effect. Still, he could propel a song: on tracks like "Fire" and "Manic Depression" he proved a perfect match for Hendrix's guitar. Even after the band split, the two performed together at Woodstock...
...fact like many marriages: One partner does all the saving, and the other partner does all the spending,” Ferguson said. But Ferguson did not come bearing only bad news. During previous eras of economic stagnation, he said, venture capitalists tapped into American innovation in order to propel the economy forward...
...only one thought entered my head: “It should have been me.” I began my own campaign for U.S. president at the tender age of nine, when I ran for class representative of the fourth grade at Adler Park Elementary School. Winning would propel me onto the student council, the venerable body that met once a month to discuss the important issues—the rising prices of chocolate milk, the construction of a new swing set and the planning of the Adler family carnival. But I was at a steep disadvantage. There were only...
Part of McCain's weakness is with the Latino vote - the same demographic outraged by the Republicans' anti-immigration push over the past few years, which has helped propel Obama in neighboring New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado. While McCain has long had a reputation as a moderate on immigration, during the primary season he distanced himself from the 2006 bill he had co-sponsored that offered a path to citizenship. That has not exactly endeared him to the 1.8 million Latinos living in Arizona, who make up 4% of the U.S. Latino population. The Pew Center estimates that there...
...Since leaving Harvard, Obama has made little mention of his alma mater, something that his constitutional law professor, Laurence H. Tribe ’62, said was a consummate politician realizing that “it could be off-putting for him to underscore the elite institutions that helped propel him on his path...