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...working full-time in community service and activism. Recipients “demonstrate the impact and the value of public service in the spirit of John F. Kennedy,” according to a press release. The two past recipients of the award are a Louisiana state representative, Karen Carter, and the founder of the non=profit group Teach for America, Wendy Kopp. Madigan was honored with the Fenn Award, named after Dan Fenn, the Kennedy Library’s first director and a former Kennedy staff member. Since taking office as the first female Illinois attorney general...
...problem was that Cash and Carter, both devout Christians, were married to other people while they toured together for almost 10 years. June may have written the lyrics for Ring of Fire ("it burns, burns, burns") about her feelings for Johnny, but over the course of their 35-year marriage, they stuck to the story that they didn't get together until the earlier relationships ended. "We're all for star-crossed lovers," says Konrad, "but a decade of nothing...
...Cash and Carter to open up, Mangold spent hours with them on the phone and at their Hendersonville, Tenn., home. He asked general questions (To Johnny: What did it feel like to do drugs? To June: Do you recall the first time Johnny touched you?), tape-recorded the answers and worked them into his drafts, which he shared with the couple. And finally, a few months before Carter and Cash died (within four months of each other in 2003), he found out that they had given in to temptation one night after a show in Las Vegas, that Carter...
...fought to cast him in crucial supporting roles, and on Nov. 18, Phoenix will finally get to show what he can do with a movie on his shoulders. In Walk the Line, he plays and sings the life story of the late Johnny Cash opposite Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash. "I should have a good answer for why I wanted to play him," says Phoenix. "An answer about his life and the impact he had on American music...
Things would have been different if we had been pouring money into alternative energy for the past couple of decades, as we did in the aftermath of the oil shocks of the 1970s. Back then, despite the ribbing Jimmy Carter got for appearing on TV in a cardigan and calling for sacrifice, there was a clear sense of national emergency. That crisis receded, thanks in part to conservation and investments in energy efficiency and in part to the worldwide recession the oil shocks helped trigger. As a result, a barrel of oil costs 30% less today, in inflation-adjusted dollars...