Word: sean
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...McCartneys have shown similar courage, organizing a rally attended by 1,000 people and lobbying politicians from Belfast to Washington. Sean Brady, the Catholic primate of Ireland, said their bravery "rendered transparent and weak the efforts of others to bully, frighten and control whole communities for their own selfish or political ends." Now the McCartneys hope others will speak out, too. Some witnesses have come forward, Paula McCartney says, but they have denied seeing the actual attack. "Seventy-two people could not have all been in the toilets," she says...
...percent of the purchasers of hip hop music are not black. Hip hop dominates media outlets, fashion, sports, artwork, and popular lexicon. Hip hop also serves as an effective tool to politically engage and mobilize youth, as evidenced by Russell Simmons’ Hip Hop Action Network and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs’ Citizen Change project. We have also seen the emergence of hip hop cultures all over the world. Halifu Osumare, a lecturer in African American Studies at University of California Berkeley, stated in a press release regarding his course entitled Power Moves...
...made for cute: the clear blue eyes, the chipmunk cheeks, the giant smile on the pixie face. And yet Dakota Fanning takes on roles that Max von Sydow would find too dark: the daughter losing her retarded father in I Am Sam with Sean Penn in 2001; a kidnapping victim in last year's Man on Fire with Denzel Washington; a horror story about a girl with an imaginary friend in January's Hide and Seek with Robert De Niro; a kid running from aliens in this summer's Steven Spielberg movie War of the Worlds. It will...
Facebook connection: Founder Sean Parker now lives and works at Casa Facebook
...story: Having amassed an unmanageable number of contacts over the course of Napster’s legal battle, Sean Parker had an idea for an electronic address book tool that would automatically organize and update contact information. Plaxo partnered with Sequoia Capital to launch the project. To date, Sequoia has helped Plaxo raise $20 million in venture money. Four years later, Plaxo now has more than five million users and is on its way to becoming a profitable corporation. The only thing Plaxo doesn’t have is Parker, who left the company in April of last year...