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Elton John had a song out a while ago. Your Song. Newsweek, when it was still in print, had a page called My Turn (that had been before the Internet with immediate comments and re-tweet). Now, the Art of the Start‘s author, Guy Kawasaki, asked readers what they want included in his next revision of…
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Needless to say, my hair was long, my pants were bell-bottom and my shirt shiny. I spent half of that decade in Vietnam, the other half in America. But the youth culture helped bridge the cultural gap: we had already listened to James Talor, Gordon Lightfoot, Neil Young, Elton John before I jumped on to…
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In Vietnam, don’t be surprised when you are placed next to a complete stranger, who knows someone who knows your host. It happened to me at Christmas party this year. Next to me was a Vietnamese-American returning from multiple tours in Iraq. He was here to fly his wife out. She had flown in as…
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If you look hard enough, you will find them: a Queen wearing Green, a show host wearing “color purple”, bidding farewell to a dream career a black, single mom couldn’t have imagined 50 years ago, or a fairy tale went awry with California Dreamer, bodybuilder that pumped more tragedy to the Kennedy clan than pumping iron. Reports…
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B3, CVA Black and White. Grainy. Shirts and Skins. Friends from junior-high , whom I shared the ping-pong tables and school canteen. We sat through civic lessons, English lessons, Math tests and Lab tests. The photo must have been taken at one of those off-site PE classes. I learned about honor, honesty and history; the…
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It must be hard to keep reinventing one’s self, especially when it comes to topping your own high marks. Gaga does it again on Vogue cover (all- meat bikini ). http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/09/07/2010-09-07_lady_gaga_dons_raw_meat_on_cover_of_vogue_hommes_japan.html Use all your resources. Follow the money and your instincts. This is to show that when it comes to imagination, we have no bound.…
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Local singers here command higher caches seven nights a week by bar hopping. But occasionally, like last night, they showed up at an open-air concert to entertain the mass. Sandwiched between numbers were the Viet-Kieu comedian couple as special guests. They talked about how the US economy barely stayed out of the red. And of…
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