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...next two weeks, Garibay's nationally syndicated colleague Eddie ?El Piolin? Sotelo and the other major Spanish-speaking deejays in Los Angeles, whose combined local audience exceeds one million, abandoned their usual inane, bawdy banter for an all-protest, all-the-time format, urging listeners to join the march in downtown Los Angeles protesting the bill. Organizers of the L.A. rally and others elsewhere knew the deejays could spread the word not only to the nation?s estimated 11 million illegal immigrants but to the legions who count them as friends, relatives and neighbors. But none imagined they'd help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Talk Radio Spurred Immigrant Demonstrations | 4/1/2006 | See Source »

...kill--in the pilot, they foil a murder--and they take, Robin Hood-- like, only from the rich. (So they skip the give-to-the-poor bit. Nobody's perfect!) In fact, Heist's greatest crime is robbing innocent movies of their clichés: the Tarantino-gone-PG banter, the whooshing camera shots, the generic peppy jazz that sounds as if it were lifted from a Putumayo Presents Lighthearted Caper Music of the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thick with Thieves | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

...York University students named Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons, who brought them into the Def Jam fold, and Madonna picked these unknowns to open for her at the height of her popularity. They would get so many boos with their giant inflatable penis and their pussy-centric stage banter that Madonna would get twice the applause when she finally appeared...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BookEnds: ‘Skills’ Sheds ‘Light’ On The Rise Of The Beasties | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

...would need to beat Princeton in Jadwin or else face the prospect of a neutral site do-or-die playoff game against a team that went 2-11 against non-conference competition.All of a sudden, the “seeding watches†that have dominated most of the banter involving bored Ivy basketball fans would be halted momentarily to watch the league teeter on the brink of the play-in game.And all it would take is one—and only one—Yale win to make March meaningful again.With that, let’s get to this...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVY LEAGUE: New Haven Site of Stretch Drive Drama | 3/3/2006 | See Source »

...more serious than at Pizza Q. That’s not to say they’re all business—they aren’t afraid to laugh with actors, especially those they know, and their discussion when the actors were out of the room was the light banter of close friends, covering everything from theater to Thanksgiving. Still, they missed no detail. Executive Producer Zoe M. Savitsky ’07 gives each actor, even friends of the production team, a carefully rehearsed speech after every audition that details the information they need for callbacks and encourages them...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Aoife Spillane-HInks | 2/23/2006 | See Source »

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