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...Shrek” mode of contemporary ironic detachment from traditional cartoons. We begin with a riff on how to start a fairy tale, including a faux “Lion King” opening, as if Disney felt like taking self-effacing shots at the Mouse, ala the Dream Works monopoly. The tragedy of “Little” is that Disney was so close. The amazing cast, including Joan Cusack and Steve Zahn, is actually qualified to do solid vocal work, not just be a cool celebrity cameo (I’m looking at you, Katie Couric...
Rosa Parks, the renowned civil rights icon, died of natural causes on Monday in her home in Detroit, Mich. She was 92. When Rosa Parks refused to move, a whole movement began. Park’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Ala. bus sparked the influential 1960s civil rights movement. Her arrest in 1955 provoked the 381-day bus boycott in Montgomery, led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Following the boycott, the United States government instituted the 1964 federal Civil Rights Act, which banned racial discrimination in public spaces. Parks...
...universal replacement to the pension, by the consensus of the Bush Administration, Congress, Wall Street and corporate America, is the ubiquitous 401(k). As Bush explained at a gathering at Auburn University in Montgomery, Ala., earlier this year, "When I was young, I didn't know anything about 401(k)s because I don't think they existed. Defined-benefit plans were the main source of retirement. Now they've got what they call defined-contribution plans. Workers are taking aside some of their own money and watching it grow through safe and secure investments...
...dabble,” he says. “I focused on academics, in particular on engineering, to lessen the burden on my family.”COMMITMENT TO SERVICEEven after completing his studies, Evans’ parents’ educational message continued to drive him.When working in Huntsville, Ala. on the 1969 moon landing, Evans says he saw young African-American adults being “swallowed up” by the new integration.He says that he saw then that he could do something to help—he started a one-man, unpaid recruiting and placement service...
...Quarter, Nagin managed to salvage a potentially deflating photo op last week. The Rev. Jesse Jackson had arrived with a bus convoy of what was supposed to be 200 New Orleans evacuees returning home but turned out to be mostly down-and-out residents of other cities like Mobile, Ala., and Memphis, Tenn., looking for reconstruction jobs. The event could have been an embarrassing rebuke of Nagin's come-home rallying efforts, but the mayor turned it around by welcoming the new arrivals as a "test case" for the city's job opportunities...