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Since this was clearly the biggest, most important comedy job I'd ever get, I expected the Academy to send an official package of Oscar history, tips from past writers and a truckload of money. Instead, I got just some grainy DVDs of Jackman hosting the Tony Awards. I was starting to wonder if I was really hired by the Oscars when I found out I wasn't. It turns out the Academy hires pros like Bruce Vilanch for the presenter banter but lets the host pick his own team. This makes sense when the host is a comedian with...
...declaration, I’m moved to ask: our turn to what? Labor Department projections are simply not as attractive as efforts to build up a newly prosperous, post-Nazi-beating America. Nor will accounting for multiple misguided wars be as sexy as the race to send a man to the Moon. Previous generations were certainly faced with their own adversities, but historically, the youth consensus has been that the troubles were the result of poor leadership or malicious enemies abroad. President Obama has declared that the wars and troubles we face are in fact all of our wars...
Scholarship programs or financial aid incentives that encourage public service, while important, fail to send as clear and salient a message: that public service is a priority not only for the select few who are interested in or even aware of these programs, but also for every American citizen...
...community of hardworking people. In her ongoing fight to improve living conditions and treatment for laborers, Huerta represents the family who spent days in the fields under the scorching sun with no place to use the restroom or drink clean water. She represents the mother who labored tirelessly to send her children to school and the child who saw the pain and suffering of the family. She represents the generations who fought hard so that one day their children and children’s children could be in a better position to help the world in their own right...
...been fighting for. At the same time, she works hard to keep the rock-star-in-chief’s feet on the ground. After the startling loss in New Hampshire during the primaries, she reportedly remarked to the campaign team, “We need to send a message to all our supporters to not take a single thing for granted...