Fashion was all about exclusivity, and Internet was all about democracy; fashion was for the élite, Internet for the masses — someone had to link the two planets".
ROBERT BASS's time in the audition room had run out, and he had not found a tenor for Leonard Bernstein's "Mass" -- someone who could sound angry as he questioned God and also hit a high C. "A couple of guys had come in to audition, and they crashed and burned," said Mr. Bass, the music director of the Collegiate Chorale.
As an example, according to the body mass index, someone who is 5 foot 9 would be considered overweight at 169 pounds; he would be considered obese at 203 pounds.
This isn't the expected culture of covert insularity in which Apple waits for the complaints to hit critical mass or someone to take it up as a cause before it's addressed.
Well, if you shoot the body mass of someone wearing a suicide vest, the whole thing is going to explode.
"I think it's important that one day every year the mass media celebrates someone who has been awarded a prize for intellectual achievement".
I remain firmly convinced we can make tremendous legislative strides in preventing mass tragedies involving someone with a serious mental illness.
(The FBI defines a "mass murderer" as someone who kills four or more people in a single incident).
Our most widespread and tragic mistake has been to imagine the suicidal mass murderer as someone who lives outside of society, the ultimate and perverted individualist.
Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, has said the law could prevent mass shootings because someone with a licensed concealed weapon could confront a gunman.
"Our most widespread and tragic mistake has been to imagine the suicidal mass murderer as someone who lives outside of society, the ultimate and perverted individualist," Peter Alexander Meyers wrote last week on The Huffington Post.
