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...Election Night in the U.S., the comedian had put the presidential seal on his growing popularity. A Japanese reality show called "Devil's Contract," which helps Japanese celebrities realize their dreams, aired an episode in which they had sent Notchi to the United States to try to meet the then-senator and have him sign a contract endorsing the impersonation. If Notchi failed, he promised he would fly to Arizona to deliver a pro-Obama speech in front of John McCain's supporters. "I was fully prepared to do it and have stones thrown at me," Notchi said later...
...name Obama! My name Obama!" Holding Notchi's hand, Obama looked at him and smiled. He pointed at himself and pointed to Notchi, and said, "Oh, you are Obama, is that right?," and laughed. Notchi was so excited that he forgot to get Obama to sign the contract, but the program nevertheless considered his endeavor a success...
...animation machine when, in 1927, Walt Disney created a character called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. With his round, white face, big button nose and floppy black ears, the smiling Oswald was an instant hit and Universal ordered a series of shorts. When Disney met with executives to negotiate another contract in 1928, the rabbit was still riding high and the animator thought he had the upper hand. Instead, the studio told him that it had hired away all of his employeees and retained the rights to Oswald. Univesral offered to keep Disney if he took a lower salary...
...been called the holy grail of the teaching profession - academic freedom plus job security all rolled nicely into a union contract. But to Michelle Rhee, superintendent of Washington D.C. schools, tenure just means trouble...
...judges also enjoy such rights). The problem with tenure, Rhee and other critics say, is that it inadvertently protects incompetent teachers from being fired. The Teach for America alumna, who oversees some 50,000 students and 5,000 teachers, has sparked controversy in the capital by proposing a new contract allowing teachers to earn as much as $130,000 a year if they forgo their tenure rights (a teacher's salary, on average, is less than $48,000; most start out making...