Word: hiatus
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...appealing characters and stories that it can cross-promote. When Gomez released her new album, Kiss & Tell, on Sept. 29, she celebrated with an appearance on ABC's Dancing with the Stars. She has a song that plays during the end credits of the first Tinkerbell DVD. While on hiatus from her show, Wizards of Waverly Place, she made a TV movie with Lovato, Princess Protection Program, that got decent ratings. Mike Tirico just can't pull off that stuff. (See the top 10 dubious toys...
Robert C. Rogers, an HRDC alum who works in the Harvard Math department and has acted off-Broadway in New York, returns to the stage after a multi-year hiatus to play Robert. Rogers and his character have more in common than just an interest in math. “My own father was not exactly like Robert, but he suffered very much from mental illness,” says Rogers. “Some of the stuff Catherine has to do for Robert during the play, I had to do for my father. You always choose roles that help...
...when the Nobel Committee awarded its Peace Prize to former Democratic President Jimmy Carter, ostensibly for monitoring elections in far-flung hellholes, but really for being the most prominent American critic of then President Bush's buildup to a war in Iraq. The NPFNBGWB returned after a short hiatus in 2005, when the prize went to the International Atomic Energy Agency and Mohamed ElBaradei for refusing to confirm the existence of Saddam Hussein's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction before the war in Iraq - in other words, for standing up to Bush. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change probably deserved...
...attempt to reverse the slide, the sport is trying to go back to the future. Saturday night's highly anticipated match-up between the undefeated Mayweather (39-0, 25 KO's), who is returning to boxing after a 21-month hiatus, and Juan Manuel Marquez (50-4-1, 37 KOs), the top fighter in Mexico, will be shown in 170 movie theaters around the country. It will be the first big fight shown in theaters since 1980, when Sugar Ray Leonard beat Roberto Duran. The move harks back to the sport's glory days, when thousands of fans filled theaters...
With the health-care debate essentially on hiatus during Congress' final week of recess, Obama's back-to-school speech to America's children, scheduled to air at noon E.T. Tuesday, on C-Span and Whitehouse.gov., became a tempest in an empty news cycle - or at least the letter from the Department of Education announcing the speech did. The missive urged principals and teachers to have their students write letters to themselves about how they could assist the President, a request that some saw as an attempt to inject politics into the classroom. Jim Greer, Florida's GOP party chairman...