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...financed it without a studio so he'd have control. And he's working on a movie with his writing partner on The Office and Extras, Stephen Merchant, called The Man from the Pru, about a group of twentysomething friends in 1970s England trying to escape from their poor, small town. It's what Gervais did, leaving Reading, England, to go to college and then play in a rock band, eventually getting a job at a radio station when...
...large, there was always another turn to take, a more distant road to drive down. I came to the backroads with few expectations and I left with few conclusions. For this is, after all, at the heart of what it is to be young and to be American: poor, free, often confused, and always limitless...
...religious types can deduct their tithes to the church from their tax returns, while married couples with children can file for child tax credits. The more environmentally minded have benefited from tax credits that essentially subsidize the purchase of hybrid cars and energy-efficient home improvements, while the poor enjoy the redistributive effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit. As such, it only makes sense that Washington provide strong incentives for every American to maintain or achieve a healthy body weight...
...people" - limiting their freedom of movement and in many cases employment possibilities, and penalizing all citizens just because a better strategy to deal with crime hasn't yet been found. Sklar points out that the 10-block, one-mile area covered by Helena's 24-hour curfew was predominantly "poor and black," suggesting that the curfew could be in violation of the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. And Sklar says the problem goes beyond Arkansas. In Columbus, Ohio, officials are wrestling with questions of whether authorities are unjustly confiscating belongings and subjecting young people to invasive questions in enforcing...
...Wasn't Monegan fired for poor performance...