Word: nebraskas
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...mind, Chambers was responding to a heated (if esoteric) legal battle over the execution of justice in Nebraska. An alleged victim of sexual assault rape victim had sued the county judge responsible for her case because he had refused to allow her to use charged, non-legal terms like “rape” and “assailant” in her testimony. Chambers, a long-serving political dynamo and a member of the state senate’s judiciary committee, considered the woman’s suit such a waste of time for the county?...
Once upon a time, YouTube was a haven for amateurs, with its "broadcast yourself" tagline, home movies and lip-synched musical numbers. Now it's playing host to Hollywood professionals. On Friday, Magnolia Pictures is premiering The Princess of Nebraska, the latest film from director Wayne Wang (The Joy Luck Club, Maid in Manhattan), via streaming video in the recently launched YouTube Screening Room...
...Michael Moore released his latest documentary, Slacker Uprising, online and free of charge. For Magnolia, premiering Wang's film on YouTube provides a unique solution to an unusual challenge. Late last year, Wang was completing work on two films: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Princess of Nebraska, both adaptations of stories by Yiyun Li that focus on three generations of Chinese natives now living in America. Prayers, which was released in select art houses in September, tells the tale of an elderly father visiting his divorced daughter in America. Princess leaps forward a generation, depicting the challenges...
...start at the NBC news affiliate KMTV in Omaha, Nebraska as newscaster...
...only a few weeks ago, after all, that it was McCain who had soared in national polls and Obama who was dealing with panic in his party. But McCain's campaign is now stuck playing defense. Over the weekend, his running mate, Sarah Palin, held a rally in Nebraska, a traditionally safe Republican state, but one where electoral votes are distributed by congressional district; Obama hopes to steal one such vote in the more liberal Omaha area. On Tuesday, Palin is scheduled to appear at a rally in North Carolina, another traditionally Republican region that Republicans once hoped they wouldn...