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...This is what he has been doing on most weekends since Seinfeld went off the air: traveling to stand-up gigs across the country. No press, no entourage, just a tour manager, a garment bag and an opening act (usually one of Seinfeld's old friends-Mario Joyner, Tom Papa or Mark Schiff). "Doing my act and working on that-that's my job," says Seinfeld. "To actually do your creative thing right in front of an audience and have them judge it right there-that's exciting." His life on the road was chronicled in the 2002 documentary Comedian...
...lucky to earn." He agreed to appear on 30 Rock simply because the prospect amused him. "I'm just a crazy, crazy Alec Baldwin fan," says Seinfeld. "Everything he does, he just has a very pure, straight-ahead way of performing. I thought, When am I ever gonna act with Alec Baldwin in a comedy...
...Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), otherwise known as The Nation's Report Card. The anxiety is highest over how American students will perform in reading and math, reported every two years. These subjects are the focus for most of the testing required under the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the controversial legislation currently under review by Congress. Is the enormous attention being paid to reading and math - often to the detriment of other subjects - paying dividends? The NAEP results released this morning provide a modest yes: scores are up slightly, more convincingly in math than in reading...
...said. It was an old, familiar tactic in rape cases. But prosecutor Brock Belnap won the day by arguing that what Jeffs did by urging the two to "go forth and multiply" was no different from sacrificing a young virgin for the harvest - a religious belief, but a criminal act. "This trial has not been about religion and a vendetta," Walls said on the courthouse steps after the verdict. "It is simply about child abuse...
...That's a prudent move. In this Buddhist-majority nation, monks carry a moral authority that far outweighs that of the generals. But as the clergy's protests show no sign of abating and emboldened civilians join the movement in greater numbers, Burma's junta may feel forced to act. Already, its leaders have given signs that their patience may be wearing. On Monday evening, the nation's Religious Affairs Minister was quoted on state television ordering the monks to cease and desist. Meanwhile, a human rights group in London reported that some soldiers were being ordered to shave their...