His primary talents, she said, were for working on screenplays and "for bringing people together," matching directors and actors.
At other times of day, the two groups and the Kerry campaign together matched Mr. Bush's advertising nearly spot for spot, in a couple of cases exceeding it.
In these spaces, the game opens out and draws in different groups of players to work together, match-making for experience and ability.
The big question is, can the music these three have made together match or even surpass Madonna's collaborations with Jellybean Benitez, William Orbit or Stuart Price?
A new internship program, MBAs Across America (MBAx), hopes to bring the two together, matching the best-trained business minds in the country with companies on the cutting edge of sustainable, ethical practices.
Earlier this month, top officials at Long Island Bus warned the county that it could jeopardize federal transportation grants if it failed to scrape together matching funds, said Mark Young, the budget director for the Democratic majority in the county Legislature.
The six songs of Mr. Dargel's "Hold Yourself Together" matched his cool, measured vocals and vulnerable or rueful lyrics with Wil Smith's playfully Baroque synthesizer lines and James Moore's mannerly guitar.
They then put the short strands together, matching up overlapping ends of each strand to get a single template for the entire genome.
CIOs were excited by how the concept fits together, matching employers in need of talent with a group that has been largely unemployed or underemployed.
