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Following the high-profile Wyclef debacle, the UC Concert Commission changed their entertainment tactics this week by announcing a Sanders Theater stand-up comedy show. The Dec. 10 event will feature seven touring comics, including former SNL-er Kevin Brennan. Incredibly, the comedians will all be performing for free, with proceeds going to victims of the earthquakes in South Asia. This week, The Prying Game asked whether people cared about the show and what comics they’d bring if they’d had the chance...
...that substantially raises a state or local minimum wage a “living wage” law.) Advocates of living wage campaigns have made two claims to get people to focus on their issue. First, as Paul Sonn, a living wage activist and associate counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice, puts it, living wage activists have “economics on their side.” This seems to be true. In Santa Fe, business leaders and their in-house economists argued that a living wage would boost unemployment. They were wrong. The job growth rate in Santa...
...Supreme Court has frequently recognized a qualified right to academic freedom among both public and private institutions. In a 1967 decision written by William J. Brennan, the court determined, “Our Nation is deeply committed to safeguarding academic freedom, which is of transcendent value to all of us and not merely to the teachers concerned. That freedom is therefore a special concern of the First Amendment, which does not tolerate laws that cast a pall of orthodoxy over the classroom...
...Rehnquist managed the court with a rare combination of efficiency and amiability, and the other Justices will miss him. Justice William Brennan, the late liberal icon, once called Rehnquist "my best friend up here." Unlike some of his predecessors, Rehnquist was fair about assigning opinion writing and tried to tamp down office politics. "There's no one who doesn't like William Rehnquist," says the University of Virginia's Howard. "He really is someone who is easy to be around and has a very unpretentious and pleasant manner...
...latest development to come down London--based AstraZeneca's pipeline is David Brennan, 51, who will take over as CEO from Scotsman Sir Tom McKillop. The American's marketing skills in his previous slot helped turn potions like antiulcer Nexium into blockbusters in North America. Astra's surprisingly strong second quarter quieted some grumbling among shareholders about failed new products and other pipeline issues. Upcoming drugs to treat diabetes and cancer could help Brennan meet analysts' optimistic projections. --L.T.C...