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...Well, people want to work. Especially when you write, one of the things...you realize is there is no direct interface with your audience. It’s just like this assumption that there are words on a page and someone’s reading them and hopefully enjoying them. But there’s no contact, so the idea of reading something you’ve written out loud in front of an audience and hopefully that audience is laughing, that’s like ‘Oh, yeah, this...
...That idea is a plan to save the country called the National Initiative, which involves passing a constitutional amendment that would move the U.S. from a representative democracy to a direct democracy by having all laws voted on in federal ballot initiatives. This may or may not be what he believes. Either way, I've said it better than...
...recent weeks, Gravel has been making the rounds of colleges, talking up his big idea for direct democracy. At a meeting with the Harvard Democrats late last week, he insisted he was in the race all the way to November and told his audience that he had more charisma than Obama...
...best interest of the American public. “I’m running because I want to empower the American people with the power to make laws,” Gravel said. “Power is lawmaking.” Gravel, a strong advocate of direct democracy, is the founding member of the National Initiative for Democracy, a non-profit corporation devoted to giving the American people the ability to make laws through propositions—similar to the current system used in states like California. When asked what he thought his chances were for winning the Democratic...
...which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2005, tells the story of an abusive priest named Father Flynn, who is accused by Sister Aloysius of sexually abusing a student. Wright cites the play’s relevance and powerful thematic content as the primary reasons behind her decision to direct it this semester. “Even though this play is about the Catholic priest scandal, it is a debate play as well about ‘Old’ Catholicism and ‘New’ Catholicism because Sister Aloysius represents that old school way of teaching, making...