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Her show-biz resume began accumulating credits not too long after she'd settled in Manhattan -- and all of it Pope recounts with great humor. She's a naturally funny woman when she's merely recounting the facts. Laughing out loud through these pages is a regular response.
As Dartmouth's outgoing president, World Bank Group President-Elect Jim Yong Kim stressed the importance of interdisciplinary research. The need for students to engage with the rest of the world. To push beyond their comfort zone.
My name seems to have been omitted from the guest list for the event at George Clooney's. I know this will be discovered and be truly embarrassing to the Obama campaign.
Many other creatives spent time in the area over the years, including Mark Twain, Virgil, Byron, Longfellow, Verdi, Rossini, Liszt and Puccini.
Sure plane travel hasn't always been as rosy as a 1950s beach blanket melodrama, but still. Meals and bite sized snacks used to be free. Flights used to be pretty much on time. It didn't cost $25 to check your luggage.
"Faith is what gives me hope for tomorrow, but my music is the painkiller for today."
One has to wonder if nine-year-old Neil Armstrong, who once spent his days walking around St. Mary's, Ohio, ever imagined that he would eventually be the first to walk on the moon.
SAG-AFTRA, one union, now stands where once there were a separate Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Actors. The labor movement is far from dead.
"When people realize that not everyone can make a real movie with a limited budget and have a success, it's very rewarding. We've found success spending less money and will, dollar-for-dollar earn more money."
"There's only so much of a gypsy life you can have if you want to be a wife or mom. Thank God, I haven't been punished for it, for choosing my family first."
Africans want capital investment, access to global markets, and to be treated as self-sufficient players, not victims in need of continual rescue by their former colonizers. That is the respectful, tough-love attitude that will raise all boats on the African continent.
Whether you feel that the Kony 2012 movement is insincere or revolutionary, perhaps we can agree on one thing: nothing is going to change if we don't choose to work together.
It sounds like the beginning of a semi-decent joke: A movie star, four Congress members, leaders of several NGOs, two rabbis, a journalist and a great comedian walk into a jail cell. Last Friday, that is what happened though.
There were no cheering crowds and jostling photographers when we stepped out of the DC Police van into the precinct lock-up. A couple of officers checked us in, emptied our pockets, and led us into a cell to join my fellow law-breakers.
I was proud to be among those activists arrested this morning for civil disobedience in the name of social justice. We came together today with hearts both somber and spirited.
George Clooney delivered powerful testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations committee this week. Armed with passionate, first person details and a powerful video, his appearance was compelling.
