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...time you had them" - the weekend was gentle and apolitical. Winfrey tried to motivate the HyVee crowd, but she didn't talk policy so much as treat Obama like a favorite book; she raved about how much he moved her, and told her friends to check him out. Obama stood by in a black suit and white shirt with no tie, soaking it all in before giving a version of his standard 30-minute stump speech...
...taking the podium, Brokaw presented the trailer for “1968,” a two-hour History Channel documentary based on a portion of “BOOM!”The screen displayed Brokaw, standing in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district, where he stood 40 years ago when it was “the center of the world for the counterculture.” It cut first to a clip of Tom Brokaw as a strapping young journalist, then to a dramatic retelling of the assassination of John F. Kennedy...
...President looked awful. He stood puffy-eyed, stoop-shouldered, in front of the press corps discussing the stunning new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that Iran halted its nuclear-weapons program in 2003. He looked as if he'd spent the night throwing chairs around the Situation Room. A reporter noted that he seemed dispirited, and the President joked, "This is like - all of a sudden, it's like Psychology 101, you know?" He added, "No, I'm feeling pretty spirited, pretty good about life, and I made the decision to come before you so I can explain...
...director, Walker also livened up the theatre with her dynamic blocking. While the conspiracies within the play developed, her blocking neatly reflected the changing relationships of the characters. At one point, Catomeris and Cutmore-Scott stood at opposite sides of the stage, facing away from each other, with Kargman sandwiched between them in the role of peacemaker. Later, she effectively reversed the picture as Catomeris and Cutmore-Scott circled Kargman triumphantly, stopping on either side of her in order to clink champagne-glasses over her head...
...handed down by the Center for Public Leadership. The awards have stirred occasional controversy—recipients include Ralph Nader and Jack Kevorkian. Center for Public Leadership Director David R. Gergen said the membership of the awards committee will not change and will continue to honor what Gleitsman stood for when giving the awards. “We ought to be daring because agents of social change are often controversial. That goes with the territory,” said Gergen, who is also a professor at the Kennedy School. About one-third of the money will go toward the awards...