Word: preferable
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...counter-proposal, which would have included at least two network-sponsored debates, one on NBC and the other on CNN. As a political calculation, such a proposal is understandable: It could be politically disadvantageous for an inexperienced debater to meet a four-campaign veteran head-on, and Bush may prefer to first meet Gore in front of a smaller audience...
...Romenesko's MediaNews poynter.org/medianews) a site that in addition to aggregating news stories about the media posts e-mail from media professionals. (A recent topic: a schoolyard fight between journalists and p.r. agents in which the reporters accused the flacks of being overly aggressive and underinformed.) Investment bankers prefer vault.com where they can keep tabs on which of their colleagues is getting richest and who's sleeping with whom. On greedyassociates.com young lawyers gripe about working conditions and compensation. And truckers can compare rigs and routes on truckinlife.com...
...just prefer the craftsmanship and care and humility of design and artifacts from the earlier era," says Ware, who collects pop ephemera like turn-of-the-century sheet music. "[There is] this arrogant sexuality to the modern world that I find very annoying, and I guess threatening. Everything has to be cool. Everything has to be sexy and fast-paced and rock-and-roll." Daniel Clowes, creator of Eightball comics, remembers visiting a modern-art museum in Amsterdam with Ware: "After about three rooms of Damien Hirst-ish paintings, I thought he was going to start tearing...
...went back to my RV and stared out the window at the nudist woman next door who hadn't shaved her armpits since she arrived and whom I now referred to as Princess Little Stubble. No matter how much I long for a community, I prefer sitting alone and making fun of people. Next Burning Man, I plan on forming a cult devoted to that...
...those who prefer their music sans message needn't feel left out. Michael Tilson Thomas, the Great American Conductor, celebrates the centenary of the Great American Composer by leading the San Francisco Symphony in Aaron Copland's electrifying Symphony No. 3 (Sept. 27-28). Cecilia Bartoli and Bryn Terfel, the hottest tickets of the post-Pavarotti era, join forces for a gala concert at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House (Oct. 29). Ace countertenor David Daniels, opera's freshest star, makes his triumphant return to the New York City Opera in a new production of Handel's Rinaldo...