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...Sundance Film Festival. Did that movie play any part in getting Eastbound & Down off the ground? Oh, definitely. The short history is that Jody Hill, Ben Best and I were all in film school together in North Carolina, and after years of compromising ourselves and struggling in California, we moved back and made this movie for $70,000. We paid for it on credit cards, with a crew comprised of interns from our old film school. The movie never found real financial success, but it started getting passed around Hollywood, and that's how we met Will Ferrell and Adam...
...Regardless of what course of action the state of California undertakes, it should do so promptly. California state officials, including the governor, have indicated that they will appeal the mandate, possibly to the Supreme Court, seemingly in contradiction to Governor Schwarzenegger’s 2006 declaration of a state of emergency because of risks found to be associated with severe overcrowding in state prisons. Overburdened prison facilities essentially hand inmates harsher sentences than they deserve, decreasing their likelihood of real rehabilitation and increasing the possibility that these men and women will continue to cycle through the system. While the state...
...marvelous” teacher to both the students at the School of Engineering and younger pupils. Stone was in Rhode Island teaching students about fluid mechanics the day he was elected to the NAE, according to Hutchinson. Stone received his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from University of California-Davis, his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology, and completed his Post Doctoral Work at Cambridge University. He joined the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...national grape boycott, which communicated the worker’s suffering to the consumers in order to end subhuman wages, worker abuses, poor living conditions, and the use of toxic pesticides, among other atrocities. Her efforts culminated in a three-year collective bargaining between the UFW and the entire California grape industry in 1970, a monumental and unprecedented triumph...
America saw its first Asian American mayor in San Jose, California in 1971, just a year after Kennedy School alum Sam Yoon was born in Seoul, South Korea. In November 2005, Yoon was elected a city councilor at-large—making him the first Asian American elected to office in Boston, in addition to the only Asian American to ever run for public office in the city. Now, Yoon has announced his intention to run for mayor of Boston against incumbent Thomas M. Menino, the longest-serving mayor in the city’s history...