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...with a few people in the acting community and we've been talking about working together, such as Wesley Snipes, Bokeem Woodbine ["The Rock"] and Kadeem Hardison ["I'm Gonna Git You Sucka"]. We started work on a film with Bokeem two years ago. He plays Masta Killa's cousin. It's a shoot-'em-up movie. We shot about 30 minutes already. I was financing it myself and I just had to put that on hold for a while because I had too many things going...
...most Harvard students, it hasn't been a tough choice to make. As the economy has surged, huge numbers of graduating seniors have entered fields like banking and Internet technology, lured by meaty salaries and major prestige. Teaching has been literally a poor cousin, unable to match big corporations in power...
...Senior strong safety] Mike Brooks is my cousin, and so he showed me around," Morris said. "It was a lot different than what I expected, and Mike helped me make the decision...
...been a landslide, you don't have a candidate's relative reporting on an election." Interestingly, according to Tuesday's Washington Post, Ellis himself seemed to agree just last year, when he resigned from his position as a political reporter at the Boston Globe. "I am loyal to my cousin.... I put that loyalty ahead of my loyalty to anyone else outside my immediate family. That being the case, it is not possible for me to continue writing columns about the 2000 presidential campaign...
...graceful admission raises an obvious question: If Ellis, who has worked as a political journalist for the better part of 25 years, understood the ethical dilemma inherent in a candidate's family member writing an opinion column, how could he not grasp the colossal unseemliness in a candidate's cousin declaring a winner in a national election? And how could Fox permit such a blatant conflict of interest, even if, as it says, it didn't know of Ellis's contact with his cousins on election night...