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...question about Gavin Newsom has always been 'Is this guy ready for prime time?'" says Chris Nolan, editor and founder of Spot-On.com, an independent political website. She adds: "Having gotten himself to the national stage as something of daredevil with the same-sex marriage platform - is he able to stay there and maintain a public persona that gives depth to that? I think that his behavior answers that question in the negative...
DIED. Louise Smith, 89, scrappy stock-car racer of the 1940s and '50s and the first woman to be inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame; in Anderson, S.C. In 1946 her reputation as a teenage daredevil in her hometown of Greenville, S.C., led Bill France, who co-founded NASCAR the next year, to recruit her as a draw for fans in a local race. Before retiring in 1956 at the urging of her husband--whose brand-new Ford she had totaled in a 1947 race--Smith won 38 events in various classes. "I was just born...
...Documentary short. The synopsis should make you cry. God Sleeps in Rwanda (female survivors of African genocide) is up against The Mushroom Club (the deformed children of the Hiroshima A bomb). The Death of Kevin Carter investigates the life and suicide of a Pulitzer-winning, daredevil South African photographer. A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin is a biography of the writer of 40s inspirational radio scripts...
...chorus (“I gotta testify, come up in the spot looking extra fly/For the day I die, I’m’a touch the sky”), the clothes and chest hair in this 70’s pastiche are indeed fly. As daredevil Evel Kanyevel, West does indeed try to touch the sky and does indeed die. And if this had remained a lively take on a funk-tinged hip hop song, it would’ve been fine. But such cannot be the case with the cinematic music video: the song is interrupted...
...community's complaints against the newcomers are varied and vigorous. Neighbors rail against single-family homes that are carved into hostels housing a dozen or more men at a time. Uninsured drivers, some of whom display the daredevil driving style of rural Latin America, anger local motorists. Day laborers looking for work clog parking lots, and they are more than just an inconvenience. Flooding the market with cheap labor, they're driving down wages for everyone. Even some of the more established undocumented workers are critical of the newcomers. "A hard worker used to be able to make...