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...would be a mistake, however, to construe his banking strategy as public service. Lewis may have been born in Mississippi and raised in Georgia, but he grew up at NationsBank. It is, essentially, the only full-time employer he has ever had, and he has spent the past 38 years of his life singularly dedicated to the mission set out by his equally determined mentor, Hugh McColl, to transform that North Carolina institution into what would become Bank of America...
...There's also a purely commercial value to having like-minded people mingle. The importance of "proximity" to sustaining the arts economy of New York is one of the main premises of a recent book, The Warhol Economy, by Elizabeth Currid, a young social scientist. Currid spent months interviewing people in the creative professions, with a heavy emphasis on fashion, music and other pop-oriented fields. She concludes that "cultural producers rely heavily on their social lives to advance their careers, obtain jobs and generate value for their goods...
...South Carolina audience that Obama has admitted using drugs. "Obama was doing something in the neighborhood that I won't say what he was doing--but he said it in his book," Johnson said with a smirk. (He later claimed, unconvincingly, that he was referring to Obama's "time spent as a community organizer...
...things that makes sex thrilling--and one of the very things that keeps the species going. As far as your genes are concerned, your principal job while you're alive is to conceive offspring, bring them to adulthood and then obligingly die so you don't consume resources better spent on the young. Anything that encourages you to breed now and breed plenty gets that job done...
...Questioning him one after the other, they all seemed to be trying to prove the same thing: there are three sides to every story - Paul Burrell's, Paul Burrell's, and the truth. Using his books and articles and transcripts of his earlier testimonies, they spent the morning quoting his own words back to him, pointing out discrepancies between what he had said back then and what he was saying...