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Think Hollywood, and sustainability may not be the first word to cross your mind. Porsches and private jets, Cristal and cocaine, the entertainment industry has been the embodiment of American overconsumption, and its chief sales agent to the rest of the country. Recycling? That was for plot lines. But side-by-side with that image of excess is Hollywood the dyed-blue liberal, the city that gave Al Gore an Oscar before he won that Nobel, where solar panels and Priuses are the new must-have toys, and someone actually thought global warming would make for a good action movie...
...word concussion tends to evoke macho images when you're talking about sports: hulking football players flying across the field, crushing their heads into one another's helmets, lucky if they can count their fingers by the end of the game. But brain pain doesn't affect just boys. Ask Christin Anson, a high school junior from Lancaster, Ohio. During a soccer game her freshman year, an opposing player kicked her square in the back of the head. She shook it off and even finished the game. "I just thought I'd have a headache...
...like, “How did this get slammed? It’s unbelievable!” And so I took it on as a challenge.RR: Did you change anything up to try to make it more acceptable?MW: No, nothing. I didn’t change one word. I learned that everything in the play is important. It’s like a poem, every word is important.RR: You didn’t want to make the Yale students uglier or less articulate or anything like that?MW: No, because it speaks for itself. I didn?...
...When you have a word like Jerusalem and you’re not allowed to use normal things used to describe it, it makes a point on how difficult it is to have a discussion on something. We wanted to inspire people to talk and discuss these difficult issues...
This is the section in which the DNI and AG are asked to provide annual reviews of the procedures they use to target people overseas, so called "basket warrants." The controversy is over the word "persons." Democrats cite a section of the law - which I mentioned in my Swampland post - that defines "persons" as "groups" or "entities." In other words, al-Qaeda could be considered a "person." Republicans - including a senior legal source in the intelligence community who deals with the FISA court regularly - believe that a judge can construe that to mean a review of individuals who have been...