| The Assassination Primary
That way, you get to enjoy the good press. Just ask Ronald Reagan. Best of all, though, is an assassination attempt attempt. Someone thought you were worth killing, but didn't follow through, giving you all the cred but none of the scars. Apparently that's what happened to Rudy Giuliani. It turns out a group of New York crime bosses nearly voted to whack Giuliani back in 1986, when he was a U.S. attorney prosecuting cases against the mob. The heads of five families voted 3 to 2 to spare him, according to testimony Wednesday at the trial of an FBI agent in Brooklyn. "That was one vote I won I guess," Giuliani told radio host Mike Gallagher today. For someone cultivating an image as the toughest candidate in the Republican pool, it doesn't hurt for voters to know some bad guys wanted you dead.
Textbooks Enter the Digital Era
The chapter on acceleration, for example, has animated races between a tortoise and a hare, illustrating the principle. Jacobsen argues that the latest generations of E-books do more than merely electronically post the text of an existing book; they create a new model for teaching the material. Generation text. The educational appeal of these digital textbooks-that they incorporate diverse tools into a single volume-also is confirming for some professors that it could be time to move away from the idea of a central course text altogether. Prof. Diane Ebert-May, who teaches plant biology at Michigan State University, says she hasn't used textbooks in her classroom for years-not even for majors. Instead, her students get a series of readings that address different topics. "Biology changes so rapidly that most of the readings in my class are not much older than 2004," she says.
Aaron Martin turned his demons into art
What's in a name? Not much, other than success for the creator of Angry Woebot, though, unlike some artists who become one with their alter egos, wanting to be addressed by their made-up names, he's still, relatively, the same Aaron Martin who spent his childhood in Hawaii. "Sometimes people in the street will go, 'Hey, it's the Angry Woebot!' and I'll just be like, 'No, I'm Aaron,' " he said This is not to say he hasn't endured the kind of bumps and bruises that would give cred to his street moniker. Martin will be at Split Obsession Saturday night to introduce a new print and T-shirt, limited to 100 pieces each. It will be available at the store from 5 to 8 p.m. and at the boutique's Web site. Martin, who now divides his time among Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Hawaii, will be available to sketch and sign at the reception.
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