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...Gideon is court savvy,” Fish said, “Once he gets any ball in the middle of the court he knows how to drive it hard enough to bother...
...brain cancer.Pops didn’t want to draw attention to himself and the illness that had taken over his quick-witted, Jesuit-trained mind, though. So it was just an engagement party. He never wanted people to give him the luxury treatment. He hated that I had to drive him to work at his Brooklyn newspaper through 50 minutes of bumper-crunching BQE traffic whenever he wanted to go to work, and he always tried to get off of the couch by himself before extending his pudgy fingers to whoever was standing nearest. So we called it an engagement...
Indeed, on a deeper level, the collective drive seems less toward austerity than toward a longing for authenticity. The age of YouTube, MySpace and reality TV has created a palette for things original, unexpected and ever changing as well as a climate of discovery and surprise. And if the luxury conglomerates have become too much like ocean liners to oblige, smaller shops are ready to catch the prevailing wind...
...says. She thinks this will present a challenge to politicians accustomed to appealing to a single black voting block. But Gay isn’t blind to nonbinary colors.She is now investigating how economic disparities within neighborhoods influence relationships between blacks and Latinos. Material deprivation can drive hostility between groups, she found.“You have two minorities, small in number, that you think can share an affinity—but yet you see conflict,” Gay says. Though Gay moved into her office last fall, she hasn’t yet taught. Next semester she plans...
...past few months,Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, has helped drive equities higher with his upbeat views on the economy. In his semiannual congressional testimony last week, the Fed chairman laid out a rosy scenario, predicting that U.S. growth would continue "at a moderate pace this year and next, with growth strengthening somewhat as the drag from housing diminishes...