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Then there is Callie Shell, whose personal backstage pictures make her the consummate inside political photographer. On contract since 2001, she came to TIME straight from the White House, where she had worked for eight years covering former Vice President Al Gore. In 2004 she took pictures of Senator John Kerry's campaign, and since January 2006 she's been shadowing Senator Barack Obama...
...some disparity in graduation rates by race, the direction of the gap was actually the reverse of the gap on standardized tests: 92 percent of black seniors graduated in 2007, compared to 87 percent of whites. Superintendent Thomas D. Fowler-Finn, who narrowly won a controversial extension to his contract last week, was quick to highlight positive change enacted since he took on the job in 2003. “Five years ago, students came to school in September and didn’t even have a course schedule,” he said. “Those days...
Despite rumors and media reports of a deal struck over the weekend, WGA presidents Patric Verrone and Michael Winship e-mailed their members Sunday, saying, "We are still in talks and do not yet have a contract... Picketing will resume on Monday." The Alliance of Motion Picture Television Producers (AMPTP) also waved off reports of a done deal, though an AMPTP source said to "stay tuned...
...negotiators are expected to bring the union's board of directors a rough contract on Monday, the result of recent bargaining sessions attended by News Corp chairman Peter Chernin, Walt Disney chief executive Robert Iger and WGA negotiators David Young, John F. Bowman and Verrone. The negotiators have used the contract producers struck with the Directors' Guild of America last month as something of a template. That deal doubles residual payments for films and TV shows sold online and grants the union jurisdiction over shows created for the Internet...
...board approves the tentative deal Monday, contract language will be finalized over the next several days or weeks. If past Hollywood strikes are any guide, the writers may resume work before every detail of the contract is agreed upon. With less than two weeks to pen some Oscar patter and with plenty of productions anxious to resume, writers may want to start flexing their typing fingers...