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...Thus people are refusing to fly because they can imagine the once-unimaginable, and terrorists will refuse to create the once-unimaginable because it is no longer unimaginable. The sag in airplane travel epitomizes the double-edged sword that imaginative free rein provides. While this license will force us to face and interdict the worst acts imaginable done by one group of humans to others, rampant credulity of imagination creates irrational and damaging fears. The key is to harness this imaginative credibility for vigilance and not paranoia...
...necessarily. If the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, weary from a long strike against advertisers last year, reach new residual agreements with producers by the time their contracts expire on June 30, actors can still work on movies that are already written. SAG president William Daniels would support waivers for independent productions during a strike. Note to actors and writers: If your union is picketing, any work for a major U.S. studio (even overseas) would be scab labor...
...grip? Nothing as campy as what science fiction can envision, to be sure. The latest tempest in Tinseltown (and no, it’s not J. Lo’s increasingly warped fashion sense) is that the contracts which the WGA and the Screen Actors Guild of America (SAG) have with the television and film industry (represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers) are set to expire on May 1 and June 30, respectively. These 14,000 WGA members and 135,000 SAG members constitute the brains and the brawn (so to speak) of television and film...
...although representatives from both the WGA and SAG insist that they don’t want to go on strike, a standoff between the guilds and the industry seems inevitable. Talks with the WGA broke down on March 1 and will not resume for another two weeks; the SGA has failed to even begin negotiations. Sticking points include the best way to overhaul so-called “outmoded” residual payment formulas for syndicated television shows and movies released on DVD, as well as “creative rights” (in the case of the WGA) that...
...Harvard] seems to sag in a little bit, and our points were open," said Dartmouth Coach Judy Parish Oberting. "I think we're pretty dangerous in the corner, and they have to compensate for that. And when there's traffic in front you can't stop what you can't see. That's worked for us all year...