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Comedy classes--at clubs, community centers and university continuing-education programs--can sometimes lead to a breakthrough. Carter offers a weekly four-hour workshop that meets for eight sessions and costs $485. Commencement consists of a five-minute gig onstage at the Hollywood Improv in front of a real audience. Half of Carter's students are 50 and older. Jeff Justice, a comedian and teacher in Atlanta, charges $349 for a six-session course that meets three hours a week. His students graduate with a four-minute spot at the Punchline Comedy Club in Atlanta...
...ever a film worked with the slow precision of a pressure cooker, it is Wolf Creek. For its first half hour or so, the film proceeds leisurely, almost blithely, as it follows the journey across the Outback of three young backpackers from the beaches of Broome, Western Australia, to the meteorite site of Wolfe Creek, with its kilometer-wide crater and ghostly landscape. When the backpackers' watches mysteriously stop, as does their car's engine, we could be back in the moody territory of Picnic at Hanging Rock, especially when the star of that film, John Jarratt, shows...
...week-long multimedia effort to move public health closer to the top of the national agenda. ABC News and Charlie Rose are scheduled to devote segments of their shows to the conference, while PBS, starting on Nov. 1 at 9 p.m. E.T., will begin running a six-hour series titled Rx for Survival--A Global Health Challenge. Finally, Alicia Keys will hold a concert in New York City benefiting Keep a Child Alive on Nov. 3 with such guests as Usher, Paul Simon and the Agape Children's Choir from Durban, South Africa. Tickets for the concert are still available...
...start their own businesses are crushed by corporate and other taxes. If they can hire support staff, these small one- or two-person businesses in many cases have to fund benefits that the employers themselves do not have: sick leave, paid four-week vacations, holidays, maternity leave, a 35-hour work week and more. In a turnabout of the exploited and the exploiter, small-business employers feel used, and many dream of the day when they too can be employees. That is no way to get an economy moving. Somehow governments and voters can't make the leap of imagination...
...Christian ’06. Providing a contrast in style, the Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones performed the more lighthearted lustful love song “Breathless” by The Corrs, with a solo by Andrea M. Ellwood ’06. Other a cappella groups performing during the two-hour evening concert included the Fallen Angels and Harvard LowKeys...