Word: explaining
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...more e-mails checking on my progress than my editor does. The two-minute video interview that I promised TIME.com turns into Apatow taking my camera, directing me for 15 minutes and editing it himself. It's not entirely surprising - after all, I'm lazy - but it helps explain how Apatow has become the most influential person making comedy in Hollywood. Partly it's that he's funny. But mostly it's that talent is far less important to him than hard work. We like to think of comedians as people who throw out quips from behind a martini (Dorothy...
...Timbuktu's imam, at home, he shows me four ? 15th century leather-bound manuscripts that locals had sold him the day before for about $200. Many locals, he says, simply need the money, or don't know who will next look after the books. "We are trying to explain to each new generation why these are important," he says, peeling back the pages of one of the tomes. "We tell them to pass them along through the generations. But many young people have no use for them. There are some who will see them as an easy...
...reasons, don't have to worry about being confused with a suspect. They live in neighborhoods where they might be the only people of color on the block. This sense of insecurity, of not quite being at home, coupled with the unwillingness of an agent of the state to explain why he's on your property, might lead even the mellowest among us to see shadowy intentions in what probably was just sloppy police work. And it might lead an otherwise even-tempered President to call the police out in exactly those terms. (Read TIME's 1994 review of Gates...
...eloquence is a big part of the reason that Barack Obama got to the Oval Office. There's always been a sense that his ability to explain things was tantamount to his ability to fix them. But the sheer complexity of health care has so far defied both his ability to explain and his power to fix. And in this case, the latter is an even greater challenge than the former...
...Portuguese-language radio stations. The state of California is handing out maps of neighborhoods with low participation rates in the last Census so community groups can target where to knock on doors. Roman Catholic priests near the U.S.-Mexico border are readying picture books to more easily explain the process to people who don't read well or at all. The mayor of New Orleans is telling members of the Hurricane Katrina diaspora to use their old addresses - though that one isn't kosher. "The Census," says Melanie Campbell of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, "is all about...