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...What did you do to Stewart? There was a very inside joke on Family Guy referring to the fact that he was working before the writers' strike was over. It was admittedly a very direct middle finger of a joke, which I don't discount. But he called and was very angry about it. The call lasted an hour. It was pretty amazing. He's a very good debater, I'll tell you that. It was fascinating to me that it went on for so long...
McCain's allies are in on the game too. The National Rifle Association plans tens of millions of direct-mail pieces attacking Obama as being a threat to hunters, and has television ads already running in Colorado and New Mexico, where voters can cast their ballots early. An outfit known as BornAliveTruth.org has been advertising in swing states with the misleading claim that Obama supports the death of fetuses born after failed abortions. (Obama opposed an Illinois senate bill he said could have jeopardized other abortion statutes; at the time, Illinois law required doctors to save the lives...
...three didn't know one another well when the dawning foreclosure crisis threw them together in August 2007. They bring contrasting--and sometimes contentious--styles to their countless strategy sessions, all-nighters and weekends spent away from their families. Paulson is profane and direct and talks in anecdotes. He is also the bearer of bad news, having been the one to let Lehman Brothers' chiefs know they were going down without a helping hand. Checking in from his tomblike suite of offices at the Federal Reserve on Constitution Avenue, where he monitors two computers and a TV while chewing...
...upside-down shots along with shifting exposures and motion, while another by Hollis Frampton begins with a solid screen that shifts colors. Neither of these works would have been half as interesting without the anecdotal context Sitney provided. “It’s very difficult to separate direct engagement with the physical world from autobiography,” he said in regard to interpreting the stream-of-consciousness quality of these films. Sitney explained that Brakhage drew some of his inspiration from poetry, while Frampton seems to have been motivated by a fierce sense of competition with...
...should make it really rewarding,” Lusk said, stating that more punitive measures would not be received favorably by the public. “We should figure out direct ways to motivate people...