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...Peck now stands in the front of the dance studio at the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center, surveying the CitySteppers who hope to carry out their mission in the next few months. Garbed in a black cotton long-sleeved shirt and matching sweatpants, Peck nods vigorously with encouragement as the CitySteppers start to break away from the circle...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Step By Step | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...prove annoyingly vulgar. Smith and Rogen both fumble with the basics, suggesting a bad chemical reaction. The film is primarily underscored by what sounds like a bizarre combination of trance and elevator tunes. The writing is forced, clinging to generic jokes, such as the racist implications of asking a black employee to work on Black Friday. Rogen, known for his improvisational style, is apparently incapable of delivering lines naturally if they’re actually written in a script. Smith relies too heavily on what I like to call “WTF moments,” like when Stacey...

Author: By Mia P. Walker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno' | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

Todd, Ashley •admission of that there was no attack by a black man and that backwards B was cut into cheek by self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...group that donated the money to use against Black and the others is known as the Cabinet, although you won't find that name on a letterhead or even on the Internet. Aside from Bohnett, 52; Gill, 55; Hormel, 75; Stryker, 50; and Van Ameringen, 78, the other members of the Cabinet are Jonathan Lewis (49-year-old grandson of Joseph, co-founder of Progressive Insurance) and Linda Ketner, 58, heiress to the Food Lion fortune, who is running for Congress against GOP Representative Henry Brown Jr. of South Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gay Mafia That's Redefining Liberal Politics | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...instance, in northern Virginia, a Democrat named Charles Caputo (who received $6,500 from Ebbin's PAC) had beaten a Christian youth minister, Chris Craddock, by an unexpectedly large margin, with a vote of 56% to 41%. Three other candidates critical of gays were also defeated, including delegate Richard Black, who had long opposed gay equality in Richmond. Black had had no single donation as large as the $20,000 that Ebbin's PAC gave his opponent. "This was my ninth election campaign, and it wasn't unusual to have homosexuals involved," says Black, who now practices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gay Mafia That's Redefining Liberal Politics | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

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