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...trick to creating a good comic persona is to find a new way to be unaware. Steve Carell has landed on just such a type: a confident, articulate buffoon who has no idea he's messing things up--Ted Knight without the bubbling insecurity, Will Ferrell without the boyish need to please. With his serious, Father Knows Best demeanor, Carell maintains self-assurance in the face of obvious failure; he's a pompous but lovable loser. "I myself am a lovable loser. So it's an easy transition," Carell says while sitting in the trailer for his upcoming movie...
After a week, Graff attracted the attention of Ron Hutcheson, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association and correspondent for Knight Ridder, who was following Graff’s story on FishbowlDC...
Like so many of her other goals, No. 52 wasn’t going to come easy. While Clarkson defenseman Meghan Park guarded Corriero, Golden Knight winger Ashley Shaidle had already started skating over from beside the right post in pursuit of the puck...
...week. A three-hour shift might be 10 days away - even if rent day isn't. In this world, unions seem largely absent or ineffectual: when Wynhausen and her co-workers are paid the wrong rates, or expected to work overtime without pay, there's no white knight to help them. Her new work life, she says, calls to mind Australian wharves in the 19th century, when desperate workers used to gather each morning to jockey for a day's work. The difference now is that contenders are kept at arm's length: "They just left you waiting...
Appiah’s father was a Ghanaian independence leader; his mother, Peggy Cripps, was the daughter of a British knight. Of his own many identities—a U.S. citizen, an African-American, a gay man—Appiah refuses to prioritize any one in particular. Echoing his argument in “The Ethics of Identity,” Appiah told me he believes no identity should be “determinative of absolutely every choice” one has to make...