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...ditties about the Reagan Administration, and the bipartisan Capitol Steps was born. Since 1984, when Strauss took the troupe professional, it has become a $3 million-a-year business, recording 29 albums and touring widely. Among its repertoire: My Momma Told Me: You Better Sleep Around (inspired by Monica Lewinsky); The Angina Monologues (Dick Cheney) and The Sound of Music-inspired How Do You Solve a Problem Like Scalia? Strauss was 60 and had pancreatic cancer...
...What is your beef with Rupert Murdoch? -Linda Weir, Santa Monica, Calif.I have no personal beef with him. He made one or two moves that we believe were anticompetitive, so we've taken that to the authorities, who will decide if he's behaving in an anticompetitive way. But if he invited me to dinner, I would be happy to go with...
Think of carbon dioxide, the main gas that causes global warming, and you'll likely picture a polluting factory in China; neon lights in Tokyo, an SUV sitting in traffic on the freeways of Santa Monica. But while industry, electricity and transportation all add to the greenhouse effect, there's another villain less well known: our forests. Or, rather, the lack of them. Forests, especially in the lush tropics, suck and store carbon, which is released when trees are cut down or burnt. At the current rate of destruction, deforestation is estimated to account for up to 20% of human...
Amid the apartment blocks and flyovers of the Chilean capital, Monica Eyzaguirre joins the snaking line of people at a bus stop, unfolds her newspaper and prepares for a long, long wait. "I hate Transantiago with every bone in my body," she says of the city's widely despised new transit system, watching a bus heaving with passengers trundle towards her down a congested road. "I used to take one bus to work and now I have to take three. It's made the lives of millions of people more difficult and more miserable...
...fight. It is like drinking water.” Simple cuts contrast the people’s colorful clothes and silent faces with the landscape of unburied skeletons and charred bed frames. As the film draws to a close, the mood swings upwards. Sterling’s Santa Monica petitioning and Cheadle’s celebrity efforts lead to a California divestment bill, signed at a star-studded ceremony. Warrants of arrest are issued for two of Sudan’s worst offenders. The food convoy reaches its destination. Adam tells her fellow rebels of the brave deeds of Ocampo...