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...staff planning Richard Riordan's run for California Governor had a three-pronged strategy. They wanted their candidate to attack Democratic Governor Gray Davis on the economy, lack of fiscal discipline in the state budget, and education - all Davis weaknesses. So what did Riordan do on the stump? He only talked about gay rights, abortion and women. Which party's nomination was he running for? And why was his campaign focused on Gray Davis during the primary...
...only lived in California for 12 years - still ran a surprisingly strong campaign. He took a slow, prudent approach to the primary, getting his name out and wooing key party leaders. But he'll have to ratchet up his game if he plans to beat Davis, who despite his gray personality is a smart and tenacious campaigner. The governor is already painting Simon as the second coming of Pat Buchanan...
...plus karma credits” to females willing to donate their eggs. Such advertisements, and others that specify the desirability of Ivy League ovaries, inspired Cook’s most recent true-to-life medical thriller Shock, published in August 2001. Cook tackles the infertility industry and its unregulated gray areas—a perfect setting for intrigue, horror and probing social commentary. “There is an active kind of search for women to donate eggs,” he says. “My feeling, of course, is that this is very bad public policy...
...spend a lot of time looking at the artwork on the wall. It's the difference between art for reproduction and art for display." Richard McGuire then spoke of his own recent work, installations of large comix panels that hang from the ceiling, as an example of finding a gray area between these two types of art. When McGuire asked Ware if installations were something he would "get a charge out of," Ware shrugged. "A comic strip original is not necessarily something you get an aesthetic charge out of," he replied. More hopeful, Spiegelman piped in, "On the other hand...
...confused with an Adrenaline Junkie (wearing white socks with brown shoes is about the extent of my X-Treme sports life). However, the occasional speed rush is just what the doctor ordered when I begin to lose sight of my priorities. It is way too easy in these gray days (fellow sufferers of Seasonal Affective Disorder will understand) to obsess about minutiae that really doesn’t deserve that much attention. Expos essays and problem sets have their place—don’t get me wrong—but I know far too many people who have...