Erasing.org (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
This appreciation by Newsweek ’s David Gates is by far the best David Foster Wallace memorial piece I’ve read all week... [ CONTINUE READING » ] tags: DFW , David Gates , Shakespeare , Infinite Jest , Hamlet , skull , death
Top News Cast - World (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
By David Gates Many people on the internet today have seen the advertisements for information on starting a home business. Taking surveys from the comfort of your home is one type of money making opportunity that is often targeted to those who wish to work from home. Can I really make $150 a day taking surveys on the Internet? Letas further examine the idea of making money from surveys. A way of taking...
Top News Cast - World (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
By David Gates If you have ever tried looking for a job you can do from home, you have probable experienced this situation: You type a job you are qualified to do into the search box. The results that come back are almost all obvious business scams. After realizing that people with common sense knew how to avoid scams, the scammers knew they had to find a way to trick more people. Their solution was...
Nothing To Do With Arbroath (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
A man was labelled a terrorist after he took a picture of a police car parked at a bus stop. David Gates found himself being questioned under the Terrorism Act after he spotted the BMW in the middle of the box reserved for buses, and decided to capture the image on his phone – apparently falling foul of the anti-terror law in the process. Mr Gates was then questioned by two officers who asked why he...
A Conservative's blog (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Police in Portsmouth have tried to use the 2000 Terrorism act to cover up their own criminal breach of motoring laws. A passer by noticed a police car illegally parked (Motoring offences are a criminal offence) so took a picture. They then questioned the passer by, David Gates, under the terrorism act, citing security concerns. We have to get seriously concerned when police cite "security concerns"...
Wizbang (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Last week, I got considerable grief when I revealed that one of my favorite songs from childhood was David Gates' "Goodbye Girl." I think part of it was oversaturation --...
Chem Window L (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
Sell bamboo blind(GST-B-1) Vanderbilt Beach Bay Monthly Rental Touch of gray theatre of pain. Digital Lex: Beware vendor’s line in software licensing Amsterdam High Greek life faded in - 70s Don’t Fall Victim To A Scammer! (David Gates) Alloy disc brake rear carrier for Bicycle (TR-CR021) Pretty Boy Floyd - Rock City - Nottingham - 20 February 2003 Cursus Wageningen - deel 2 bov plastic pen with sticky...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
Is Time Inc. next? Shortly after 1pm yesterday, word leaked out of a massive exodus at Newsweek. In short: More than 100 staffers accepted a buyout from Newsweek. The departing names include David Gates, David Ansen,Cathleen McGuigan and all of...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
MEDIA • More than 100 staffers leave Newsweek on both the news and business side, including David Gates, David Ansen, and Cathleen McGuigan. [ Radar ] • Glamour 's dating blogger, Mike Cherico, got the ax and is now hoping to write a book "about the rise and fall of a dating blogger." [ NYT ] • From the weekend: Scott Galloway and his merry band of hedge-fund vagilantes up their stake in the Times...
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
Radar Online "Among those leaving are some of the magazine's best-known, most-admired and longest-service critics, including David Gates , David Ansen and Cathleen McGuigan ," writes Charles Kaiser .
deal architect (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
One of my all-time favorite songs is Took the Last Train to St. Tropez by David Gates of Bread. As this article describes 30 years later, while it is still a wonderful place to visit (if you can survive CDG...
dustbury.com (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
"And Aubrey was her name, A not so very ordinary girl or name. But who's to blame?" Um, what? Not a girl, you say? Oh. Never mind .
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 02/17/2008
Black Americans made the songs, but not the myth of romantic 'authenticity.' If white tastes and obsessions distorted their music, can we ever hear each other? David Gates in Newsweek: Forbes's book is a biography of Broadway's first black star,...
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liveDaily News Blog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2007
The Songwriters Hall of Fame mailed ballots to their voting members this week to select the 2008 inductees. Performer nominees include Elvis Costello, Peter Gabriel, Steve Winwood, Tom Petty, John Sebastian, Yusulf Islam (aka Cat Stevens) and David Gates, according to a press release. The songwriting teams nominated include Chicago's Robert Lamm and James Pankow; Foreigner's Mick Jones and Lou Gramm;...
