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...point think like that. I just keep saying, "Let's keep going to Paul. They can't stop him." Before, I woulda been like, Where am I in the context of this offense? Pierce: When you are young, you are trying to secure yourself for the rest of your life. You look at us three-we've made millions of dollars. We've won tons of awards. So we look at each other and say, 'Hey, what's left...
...impact of the insane response to my cartoon will last for the rest of my life.' Kurt Westergaard, cartoonist for the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, after Danish police arrested three men in an alleged plot to kill him over his 2005 cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad that triggered riots around the world...
...when his mother was among a group of political activists imprisoned for opposing a British-appointed administrator in what was then colonial India. In defiance of their jailers, the prisoners kept up their call-and-response sloganeering. Somebody would shout out, "Khizr wazirat" ("Minister Khizr's rule"). The rest would respond, "Tordo!" ("Break it!"). Soon little Ahsan was joining in with the chorus. Long after the independence of Pakistan and India in 1947, Ahsan's quavering "Tordo!" echoed through the family home, a parlor trick guaranteed to amuse the guests...
...medium's greatest works have been in tongues other than English. Yet no foreign-language film has ever won the top Oscar; only eight have been nominated--and one of them was directed by Clint Eastwood. That's less than 2% for the best films from the rest of the world...
...Before ProComp, Betz had reached the top of the district's pay scale at $53,500 and, despite high marks from her bosses, was looking at nothing more than an annual cost-of-living raise (currently $260) for the rest of her career. "I've worked in hard-to-serve schools my entire career," says Betz. "I make home visits. I make phone calls. I'm looking at ProComp as compensation for the things that are above and beyond." Betz didn't expect performance pay to change anything about how she does her job but says it has made...