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...indulgences such as a fondness for television shows like Hawaii Five-O, Laughlin was austere--in his business ventures, his poetry and his habits. New Directions, the publishing house he founded while still a sophomore at Harvard, gave meager advances but brought to the world's attention Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Henry Miller and many other authors who had struggled to find an outlet with mainstream houses. Although he proudly claimed he had never given an advance of more than $10,000, he regularly lent money to writers who had fallen on hard times. Laughlin was a pioneer...
Beneath the hubris of policymakers and moneymen, though, some quietly wonder if there isn't more going on. Maybe the barking dog really was trying to alert us to budding economic troubles before it was summarily dispatched to the pound. "It's always wise to take the message of the market seriously," says Hugh Johnson, chief investment strategist at the brokerage firm First Albany. "The message is that the currency crisis in Southeast Asia will affect not only the economies of Southeast Asia but also that...
British soccer fans have their proud, blue-collar sections of Wembley Stadium. The French urge on the tennis underdog amid the dusty-red clouds of Rolland-Garros. Duke basketball is thunderously supported by the "Cameron Crazies." And there was nothing like the "Dawg Pound" in Cleveland before Art Modell whisked the Browns (er, Ravens) off to Baltimore...
...save for two pleasant-looking men in suits. We chatted for a moment and I learned that they were Peter LaBarbera, the publisher of an anti-gay journal, and Bob Knight of the Family Research Council, one of the nation's largest religious right organizations. My heart began to pound as I quietly removed the "Queer Harvard" button from my backpack, hoping not to tip my hand for a few moments...
...back with a new CD, Midnite Lover. Shaggy has taken the concept of Jamaican reggae to another level by mixing heavily constructed R&B, rap and heavy bass beats. Radio D.J.'s love to play it, the kids on the street try to imitate it and the club floors pound with Shaggy's honey-coated voice. Midnite Lover does not stray from the typical Shaggy tradition; it works because it is Shaggy, rather than just another Jamaican reggae artist who is attempting to capitalize off of the commercialization of the music...