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...recent years, the Academy Awards broadcast has come under fire for being overlong and dull. Last year, the show’s producers trimmed its runtime by a half hour and tapped outspoken comedian Chris Rock to give the program some much needed “edge.” To the delight of viewers—and the horror of many stars—Rock used the hosting gig to skewer Hollywood egos and lampoon the self-importance of the entertainment industry. But his barbs may have been a little too incisive—he was not invited back...
...letter, SLAM accused AlliedBarton of “withholding pay for hours worked, suspending workers without cause, and targeting officers who are outspoken supporters of unionizing...
...ballots Thursday. “Whether we do this has been brewing for some time,” Krauss said. “It happened coincidentally with Larry Summers’ resignation, but I thought that events at Harvard might motivate some of the faculty who are much less outspoken.” Summers resigned Feb. 21, one week before a Faculty meeting in which he would have faced the second no-confidence motion of his career. In the first vote, held last March, the Faculty of Arts and Science voted a lack of confidence in Summers by a margin...
...NAMED. JOSEPH ZEN, 64, Catholic bishop of Hong Kong and outspoken democracy and human-rights activist; as cardinal, by Pope Benedict XVI; in Rome. Zen, whose role in mass pro-democracy marches helped to hasten the resignation of former Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa last year, will be elevated on March 24 along with 14 other Catholic leaders. Zen's selection, which signals the Vatican's growing interest in the spiritual needs of China's millions of Catholics, was greeted by a Chinese government statement that "religious figures should not interfere with politics...
...difficult to decipher where the technical merits of each side?s argument end and the raw political motives begin. The Bush Administration considers Chavez a threat to stability in the region, while Chavez is a loudly outspoken U.S. critic who calls Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" and says that the U.S. is poised to either assassinate him or invade Venezuela for its oil reserves...