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...ridiculously fast, tongue-twisting song, “I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General.” Howard had the audience clapping for the more rapidly sung encore before he even began to sing it. With facial expressions akin to those of Lucille Ball, Brianne Boyd is lovely as the not so lovely and slightly deaf maid-of-all-work, Ruth...
...Brianne Boyd, who plays the role of Ruth, echoed her sentiments: “The group as a whole is so into putting on the show and making it something to be proud of. I know I’ll be proud enough to wear an eyepatch and pirate hat to class—and I don’t even go to Harvard...
Hard News is the story of the Jayson Blair affair at The New York Times in the spring of 2003 and its crippling effect on the nation’s most well-respected newspaper. Blair—under the tutelage of top editors Howell Raines and Gerald Boyd, who were ousted from the paper in the scandal’s wake—fictionalized large segments of many stories, including those on the front page; he often didn’t even visit locations, culling colorful details about locations from others’ articles...
...Boyd, 44, and Joan Blades, 48, a husband-and-wife team of software entrepreneurs, started MoveOn in 1998 as a petition drive urging Congress to censure President Clinton and then "move on." In the 2000 election they promoted candidates for Congress to replace those members who had been supporters of impeachment. By the time of Campaign '04, their website had become a symbol of the new power of the Internet in national politics--a cyberspace headquarters of anti-Bush sentiment and a powerful online fund-raising tool, with some 2.8 million members. Backed with millions of grass-roots dollars, MoveOn...
...will they contend with the second Bush term? "We'll get out there on issues like media consolidation and campaign-finance reform," says Boyd. Judicial nominations will also be a major issue. "Our real influence is in getting citizens engaged," says Blades. "Looking at new voters being registered, it makes me feel very optimistic that the system is becoming vibrant again...