Word: carmichael
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...When romance was called for, Mercer was there too. "How Little We Know," for which Hoagy Carmichael provided the plangent melody, boasts a lovely sense of ignorance toward a potential affair: "Who knows why an April breeze never remains? / Why the stars in the trees hide when it rains? / Love comes along casting a spell, / Will it sing you a song, / Will it say a farewell? / Who can tell?" And at times, Mercer could twist a song's kicker. "Tangerine," written with Victor Schertzinger for The Fleet's In, sounds for most of its length like a standard number about...
...myth was, that it's not worth talking, or that I'm not worth talking to, or whatever, but, the movement was filled with self-confident men and women to be able to do what they did, and for most of them, whether it was [black power advocate] Stokely Carmichael or Captain Joseph, Malcolm X's guy, giving their raw-boned opinions is a trifle compared with what they had done before. So they were pretty comfortable in their criticisms of King...
...ready to graduate from treadmill to triathlon, consider Carmichael Training Systems (CTS). Run by Chris Carmichael, Lance Armstrong's coach, CTS offers hard-core online regimens and personal coaching via phone and e-mail. First, the center's trainers assess your fitness level and goals, preferably in person. Then they provide nutritional advice and guide you remotely through every workout. Clients log in to trainright.com to track progress. This type of élite coaching doesn't come cheap. Depending on the level of supervision, the cost ranges from $39 to $1,500 a month...
...book traces the history of Black Nationalism from Union Army officer Martin Robinson Delany, who advocated black separatism, to Black Panther leader Stokely Carmichael. But Shelby goes beyond defining the role of black solidarity in past struggles and explores how these different approaches to black unity can be modified and molded into a working framework for blacks living in post-Jim Crow America...
...more and more retirement plans, such as 401(k)s, have begun offering REIT mutual funds. But after the big run-up, this may be the year the go-go party ends. "In the long term, returns from REITs have been comparable to returns from stocks," notes David Carmichael, an investment adviser in Scottsdale, Ariz. Indeed, analysts and money managers project that REITs will return more along the lines of 8% to 10% in 2005; if interest rates rise dramatically, the figures will be even more modest. Still, no matter what happens in the short term, REITs can play...