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This isn't the stuff from which stark conclusions can be drawn, I know. In search of more clarity, I called Jim Leach, the former Republican Congressman from Iowa who has long had a reputation as one of Capitol Hill's deepest thinkers...
...group numbering some 39 million along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Local producers built a formidable movie industry that served up a formulaic diet of violence and sexism (but no sex) to Pashtun populations on both sides of the border. This uniquely Pashtun take on exploitation cinema was hardly the stuff of international film festivals --"Those films are so horrible, they should be banned," quips University of Peshawar professor Shah Jehan--but it was an authentic expression of Pashtun culture celebrated by thousands of moviegoers every day. Now the industry has gone underground or moved to cities such as Lahore...
...figures in the fray and as a writer herself. “The fact that [Jon] Stewart and [Stephen] Colbert came back on the air to keep their crew working—I respect that. Maybe elsewhere it feels like, ‘Oh, there’s less stuff on TV,’ but it [the strike] is going on so long because of pure greed.” She firmly believes that writers deserve credit for their work, and that one of the forms that credit should take is a paycheck. “I have...
...just been cut off from TV entirely since school started.RR: Did you watch a lot of TV back home?SC: Yeah. Every night, “[The] Daily Show” and “[The] Colbert Report.” And a lot of MTV and stuff that I’m a little ashamed about.RR: Do you think the writers are justified in preventing us from watching those great shows?SC: I don’t know how much money they were getting beforehand, but it probably wasn’t enough compared to what producers were making...
...best and worst recommendations they’d ever received, and just who has the authority to make one. Pinker has had plenty of experience with bestsellers. Both his 1999 book “How the Mind Works” and his latest book, “The Stuff of Thought,” made appearances on the New York Times Best Seller list. Pinker’s advice to fellow authors could as easily be applied by presidential hopefuls: remember that style matters, and don’t talk down to your audience. “Most people...