He's done theater, served as a Prospect Park town councilman and has always been involved with his children.
Because of its distinctive bright green colour and its presence in the weathered zone of nearly all copper deposits, malachite serves as a prospecting guide for that metal.
But if there was a little bit of irrational exuberance about Mr. Romney's prospects — and if Ohio and Tennessee served as a reminder that sometimes the candidate with the apparent momentum does not overperform his polls on Election Day — that was not really Mr. Romney's fault; his campaign was more careful to manage expectations than in some previous instances.
Through the years, the Prospect has served as a launching pad for the careers of some top politics and policy journalists, including Talking Points Memo founder and editor Josh Marshall, the Washington Post's Ezra Klein and Slate's Matt Yglesias.
The Prospect has served as a launching pad for the careers of numerous journalists, including Josh Marshall (Talking Points Memo), Ezra Klein (the Washington Post), Matt Yglesias (Slate), Nick Confessore (The New York Times), Garance Franke-Ruta (the Atlantic) and Jonathan Chait (New York magazine).
Ken Mehlman, who served as the campaign manager for the 2004 presidential reelection campaign of George W. Bush -- in which the prospect of gay marriage served as a key, divisive social issue -- came out of the closet only after removing himself thoroughly from politics.
The prospect of joining the European Union served as a powerful incentive for political and economic modernization, a unifying goal for society.
The prospect of awarding the Super Bowl to a team has served as a spur to build new stadiums or renovate old ones.
That prospect raised fears that Syria was heading into the kind of chaos and bloodletting that plagued Iraq and served as a training ground for terrorists.
Music served as a backdrop on Monday.
He never served as a parish priest.
