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MacNeil wasn't born with a silver corkscrew in her hand. She grew up in a working-class Boston family, contracted polio at 15 months and was paralyzed until she was 8. MacNeil ran away from home at 14 and put herself through high school in Reno, Nev., by waiting tables in a coffee shop and cleaning hotel rooms on weekends. At 16 she began having a glass of cheap wine with dinner every night, an escape from her daily struggle to survive. "When you have no money, food and drink become an inordinate pleasure," she says...
...stations would switch to an all-Christmas-music format a day or two before the holiday. Now, nearly 240 stations across the country have gone all Christmas, all the time, even before the Thanksgiving leftovers go dry. Two stations--KOSY in Salt Lake City, Utah, and KNEV in Reno, Nev.--even started spinning White Christmas as Halloween ended. "The decorations are around for a long time," notes Jim Ryan, program director at New York City's top-rated station, WLTW, one of no fewer than six in the New York metropolitan area that have switched to Christmas playlists. "The stores...
...hair and mischievous eye. His is an unexpected, ironic presence in a powerful politician's office--Twain assumed that all politicians were felonious--and Reid's explanation that the pseudonym Mark Twain was born in Nevada because Samuel Langhorne Clemens took his first newspaper job at the Virginia City, Nev., Territorial Enterprise doesn't fully explain the place of honor...
...times may be changing. After a bruising annual-meeting season during which CalPERS wielded its $166 billion portfolio like a bludgeon, members of its board gathered in Lake Tahoe, Nev., in July to take stock. One invited speaker, Richard Koppes, a former CalPERS general counsel, delivered a blunt message. "Your friends think you're unfocused and too political," Koppes said. "They say you're beginning to damage the corporate-governance movement." CalPERS president Sean Harrigan, a grocery workers' union boss and an architect of the institutional investor's bare-knuckle strategy, got a more pointed message two weeks ago from...
...hair and mischievous eye. His is an unexpected, ironic presence in a powerful politician's office-Twain assumed that all politicians were felonious-and Reid's explanation that the pseudonym Mark Twain was born in Nevada because Samuel Langhorne Clemens took his first newspaper job at the Virginia City, Nev., Territorial Enterprise doesn't fully explain the place of honor...