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...Hart said, “In 1968, I thought [the photo opportunity] was a joke.” And yet, since then they have become more and more the norm. Newsweek photographer Arthur Grace wrote in his 1988 book, “Choose Me: Portraits of a Presidential Race,” “Political campaigns are now carefully staged for the picture media. They are scripted, choreographed and sanitized. Access to reality has been severely limited. Today politicians still want the cameras to project their messages but they want it done on their terms and almost never...
Less than two weeks ago, as Bank of America execs were entertaining clients and employees over the roar of their namesake 500 mile NASCAR race at the Lowes Motor Speedway just outside Charlotte, the city's other hometown bank, Wachovia, was coming to terms with its own mortality...
While MySpace got to critical mass first and Facebook became the poster child for the social-network generation, LinkedIn has always been the tortoise in this race. I think of it as the anti-social network. Although every savvy white-collar worker in the U.S. has a LinkedIn account - basically just a page that lists résumé and contact info - most users don't really know what it's good for or what one can "do" there...
...Cai’s parents and girlfriend, Christine Li ’10, were among the many who spoke to the packed hall about their memories of the 20-year-old, who died from sudden cardiac arrest near Weld Boathouse on Saturday after completing the men’s race of the semiannual River Run. Quan Cai, Peter’s father, described walking with him in a stroller when he was a baby. “People would always turn to look at him, and I wondered why,” Cai said. “It was because...
...need more proof of Stevens' power, just look at Sarah Palin's mild response to the verdict. She hasn't been shy in the past about calling on tainted politicians to step down; she won the governor's race by running loudly against the corrupt old-boys' network. With Stevens, she was more circumspect. It was a "sad day for Alaska," she said in a statement, adding that the verdict was a reflection of "the culture of corruption I was elected to fight." She cryptically ended with the hope that Stevens "will do what is right for the people...