Word: francisco
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...about that most American of concepts, happiness, found their way into Webster's dictionary and "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations." The names and subversive attributes of his characters filtered into the counterculture of the '60s; the Grateful Dead's defiantly grubby organist, Ron McKernan, was nicknamed Pig Pen; another San Francisco rock band that formed in 1966 called itself Sopwith Camel. As American soldiers stenciled Snoopy onto their helmets and the Apollo 10 astronauts christened their command module Charlie Brown and their lunar landing vehicle Snoopy, Schulz left his imprimatur on the Cold War's highest and lowest moments - the race...
This is the way Boies rehearses for a critical oral argument: he is in a conference room in San Francisco, spending his Sunday afternoon preparing his appeal in the attempt to vacate a crippling lower-court order in the Napster case. Fueled on junk food (in his hierarchy of tastes, food is not far from clothing), he's thinking at times about another case that he will be arguing the same morning by teleconference to a panel of judges in Los Angeles. And for much of the day, virtually up to the last moments before he enters the marbled...
When Theman.com was launched last year in an office opposite the San Francisco Giants' new ballpark, most employees expected to be around for at least a couple of baseball seasons. "Right now we're a zit compared to everyone else," co-founder Calvin Lui said in our September 1999 cover story, GetRich.com "In a year we're not going to be a zit." In fact, Lui's start-up--intended as a one-stop online shop and community for guys--closed its doors for the last time...
...Chris Taylor/San Francisco...
Where is San Francisco? Where is Dallas? Where is Green Bay? Where is Pittsburgh? Out of the playoffs, out of the playoffs, out of the playoffs, out of the playoffs. The class of the NFL has been forced to taste a piece of humble pie. The 49ers won 10 or more games for 17 straight seasons. Institute a salary cap, and hello No. 3 draft pick...