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...those crazy Hollywood liberals-show 'em an opportunity to school the nation on civic duty, and they never fail to jump. While this tendency can sometimes lean towards the sanctimonious, not so this farcical Funny or Die skit, in which composer Marc Shaiman wrangled a glittering cast of comedians to weigh in on the controversial California ballot initiative passed last month...
...viewpoints; everything is different but good in its own way. There are few consequences to opting out of culture wars, because in the end the most that will ever be at stake is a grade. A worker cannot adopt this bystander perspective. Workers let down other people when they fail at their work. Cultural differences stop being endearing and start being frustrating when they prevent one’s own success in another society. These clashes are necessary to help one understand another people’s way of life, and they are more likely to happen in the high...
Standing on stage with Obama, Shinseki, who was the first Asian American to reach four-star rank, pledged to provide American military personnel "a smooth, error-free, no-fail, benefits-assured transition into our ranks as veterans." Achieving that goal, he added, "is our responsibility, not theirs." Shinseki knows about wounded veterans - he lost the front half of his right foot in Vietnam, where he earned two Purple Hearts...
Unlike the hearings last month, though, when Congress presented a nearly united, hostile front against the Big Three, the fight Thursday was not so much over whether Washington should let them fail; almost all the witnesses and lawmakers agreed that would be like "playing Russian roulette with the economy," as Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd put it. But that didn't mean there was anything like a consensus on how to handle the urgent request for a total of $34 billion in bridge loans - $7 billion for Chrysler, $9 billion for Ford and $18 billion for GM. Democrats...
Objectivity is something you can strive for, but you'll always fail in making a movie because it's a personal expression. One of my goals was to never apologize for Richard Nixon or David Frost. But certainly with Nixon, who has been so vilified, deservedly so in many ways, I also wanted you to understand what made him tick...