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...vein as the news correspondents’ reports on “The Daily Show.” Though you may not have heard of the show, its roster was deep with talent: Both Sacha Baron Cohen (aka “Ali G”) and Ricky Gervais (David Brent of TV’s “The Office” and current star of “Extras”) were regular contributors.You also probably haven’t heard of Daisy Donovan, another Brit who got her start as a presenter on the “Eleven...
...movie, bolder than the book, this brassy musical centers on a homosexual flirtation in an Argentine prison. Scenes of torture crosscut to film fantasies with hunks and feathers. Comebacks for star Chita Rivera, director Harold Prince, composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb, plus a stellar debut for Brent Carver in a show asserting there can be no freedom without sexual freedom...
...Brent H. Edwards...
...other professors who have been offered tenure specialize in an array of fields. Brent H. Edwards, currently at Rutgers, is an expert on African-American literature. Stanford political scientist Claudine Gay is especially concerned with minority politics. Saidiya Hartman, currently a UC-Berkeley English professor, specializes in feminism and psychoanalysis in African-American contexts, as well as visual arts in African-American culture. Finally, Jacob K. Olupuna, of UC-Davis, studies African traditional religion, West African society and culture, and African religion in the Americas...
...staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell, in which Wilkerson charged that a "cabal" of Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had "flummoxed" a President who is "not versed in international relations and not too much interested in them either." Even more stinging was the interview given by Brent Scowcroft--National Security Adviser to Bush's father during the first Gulf War--to the New Yorker, in which he not only questioned the wisdom of invading Iraq but also criticized the wider Bush doctrine of spreading democracy in the Middle East...