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...convincing us that they were ordinary folks, with the same gripes and anxieties as everyone else. They joked about furnishing their tiny apartments and riding the subways and trying to get girls. The strike against the Comedy Store, the leading comedy club in Los Angeles, reinforced their real-life status as working-class crusaders. For both Leno, who ostentatiously took doughnuts to the picketing writers on the first day of the current strike, and Letterman, who more quietly assured his staff that he would pay their salaries in the weeks the show was dark, the first strike was a cautionary...
...some point, one wonders when the status quo will change to better represent our increasingly diverse society. It won’t change until we will ourselves to confront the issue. Today, the first day of Common Casting, is a good opportunity to start. There isn’t a better time than now to challenge ourselves to imagine an African American, an Asian, or a Latino in important American roles such as Willy, Rosalie, or Jonathan. Only when we, as actors, directors, casting directors, critics, producers and audience members, open up to the idea of such a possibility will...
...less inappropriate than it might appear. Iraq’s neighbor to the east is a favorite target of Bush rhetoric, in part because of its strategic contributions to the Iraqi insurgency, its abortive nuclear ambitions and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s maniacal defiance. Iran’s status as a dangerous state is unmistakable, and the White House’s apprehension toward it legitimate...
...percent ethnic Albanian, will settle for nothing short of independence. Serbia refuses to entertain any possibility of that happening. Unsurprisingly, then, the two failed to reach any kind of understanding by Dec. 10, the deadline set by the United Nations for negotiations on Kosovo’s eventual status. With that deadline passed, Kosovo is widely expected to secede and become the world’s youngest country. But it is ignoring the consequences of a sudden divorce. As it stands, an independent Kosovo could create broad reactionary backlash in Belgrade and more enmity in the Balkans?...
...Vote Poke This site compiles voter rolls from each state, allowing visitors to check their registration status immediately. Voters can also "poke" their friends - remind them via email - about checking their registration statuses. VotePoke is part of a new set of online tools sponsored by MoveOn.org...