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...issue that drove many of the WGA's 12,000 members to support this strike was ensuring payment when their work is used in new media formats like webisodes and iTunes downloads. But considerable energy in the negotiating room has been spent on other issues the parties can't get past, such as whether the WGA should include reality show and animation writers in its membership...
...first camera crane. In 1933 he saw American special-effects pioneer Willis O'Brien's newly released King Kong. "I thought to myself, 'I will someday make a monster movie like that,'" Tsuburaya said years later. First, however, came the horror story of World War II, which he spent laboring on propaganda films. His scale-model re-enactment of the 1941 Pearl Harbor bombing was so convincing that it was passed off as genuine in a postwar documentary by U.S. occupation authorities...
...four years Senator Obama spent attending Indonesian elementary schools qualify as his foreign-relations experience, then having my tonsils removed qualifies me as a surgeon. I love Obama, and I think he represents the future of the progressive Democratic Party - just not yet. It will take generations to recover from the damage inflicted on our nation by the blunderer placed in the Oval Office by the Supreme Court, and we need someone with more experience. Let us hope that in '08 we can once again sing, "Don't stop thinking about tomorrow." Nicholas Zizelis, New York City...
...operation is very different. Tom Harrington supported Howard Dean in 2004. This go-around he is Obama's co-chairman for Story County. "What's the difference? Organization!" said Harrington with a laugh at an Ames house party last month for a dozen undecided friends and neighbors. Harrington spent nearly two hours cajoling the group over wine and cheese to support Obama. "Dean never asked me to do anything but show up and caucus. This is my fourth one of these for Obama," Harrington said with a wave of his hand around the cozy living room...
...Indeed, the whole event has been dubbed a diplomatic vanity trip and an environmental extravagance because, after the signing, the leaders (many of whom only spent only a few hours in the city) will then hop on planes - with their huge entourages and other hangers-on like the media - to meet the next day in Brussels for their regular December E.U. summit...