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Since the magazine’s inception in 1995, DoubleTake’s financial problems have garnered substantial media attention—and this is not the first time a celebrity has volunteered to help the magazine stay afloat. In Febuary 2003, Bruce Springsteen played two benefit concerts to raise money for the magazine. The shows, both of which sold out, allowed the magazine to pay off sizeable debts to contributors, some of whom had been waiting years for payment...
...parents, Kim and his peers pursue deals outside their immigrant communities; Drunknmunky works with partners in FUBU, the African-American-owned clothing line. Instead of hewing to production, most Korean-owned companies are now full package, offering everything from fabric to manufacturing to export for major American labels, says Bruce Berton of Los Angeles' Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandise (where half the students are second-or third-generation Korean Americans...
...opened the current presidential campaign by supporting the war in Iraq, not reluctantly as John Kerry did, but with neoconservative gusto. In typical From fashion, the DLC blasted what he views as the Kumbaya wing of the Democratic Party for being weak-kneed on defense. From and DLC president Bruce Reed then attacked the candidacy of Howard Dean (who, ironically, was something of an Al From doppelganger--chesty, mouthy and combative). From, never very popular with mainstream Dems, gradually became toxic...
Glaeser “is the heir to Becker in that he has applied economics to explain all manner of human behavior,” Dartmouth Economist Bruce I. Sacerdote wrote in an e-mail yesterday...
...doing something sporty. At 9, he'd come down with a rheumatic illness. Sports were off-limits. He recovered at 13, "a present from God," he says. "When I started to do sports, it was just to be part of the normal population." His first choice: judo. "Bruce Lee!" he exclaims, a grin stretching across his bronzed face. "Everybody wanted to be Bruce Lee!" But this was Poland, 1981 - the communist regime had imposed martial law to suppress opposition, and the authorities didn't like the idea of all those teens gathering nightly to chop and kick like the kung...