Word: ryan
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Barack Obama was born in 1961. And so were: Weatherman Sam Champion Actor Scott Baio Writer Aaron Sorkin Actress Meg Ryan Singer Toby Keith...
...culture. Close to 500 people are expected to attend the conference, as well as the huge after party. Attracting all this talent was easier than Hwang expected. “In certain Internet circles, I think we’re bigger than Jesus,” he says. Ryan North, author of the popular Dinosaur Comics, knew instantly that he had to attend. “I remember thinking, ‘this is ridiculous,’” North says. “This is going to be absurd and I want to be a part...
...last few weeks, Jay Leno was railed against for asking Ryan Phillipe to give his “gayest look” to the camera after discussing the actor’s early role as a young gay man on “One Life to Live.” The event, a pop cultural incident salient and accessible to millions, vocalized a broad consensus that casual jokes based on gay stereotypes are not acceptable...
During the appearance of General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker before lawmakers this week, one major aspect of the picture in Iraq got scant mention. Iraq's Sunni insurgency and its most vicious wing, al-Qaeda in Iraq, was hardly discussed, even though Petraeus stressed that the Sunni insurgency remained alive and a potent threat. Anyone tuning in to C-SPAN - including al-Qaeda - might have gleaned a few lessons from the testimony about the U.S. strategy and vulnerabilities in Iraq...
Even as General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker made their case on Capitol Hill for maintaining U.S. troop levels in Iraq, a key Iraqi advocate of sending them home was making a power play. Tensions had been high in Baghdad Tuesday morning, in anticipation of a million-strong march against the U.S. occupation called by Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. His Mahdi Army had been engaged in weeks of violent clashes with U.S. and Iraqi government forces in the capital and in the southern city of Basra, and many in the capital feared the worst. But on Tuesday...