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...Greenbaum explains. “We work on their three minutes, their five minutes, 10 minutes.” Although he had several mentors, Greenbaum says he was effectively learning the craft on his own when he first tackled stand-up. “I would write out jokes that I could have sworn were hilarious, but when I got on stage, they would flop. It’s a horrible feeling,” Greenbaum says. “We sort of vet the jokes before they even hit the stage,” he adds. This...
...Unfortunately, you can’t hire a lawyer to represent you for the Administrative Board (Ad Board). Instead, the resident dean speaks on your behalf. And instead of being able to present evidence, all one can really do is write a heartfelt letter and hope it invokes sympathy and faith in your ability to function as a rational human being. As you can imagine, I spent much of the spring attempting to improve my writing...
...gutbucket pulse of Middle America. Back in the Vietnam era, he seemed the essence of a historic political migration: white males fleeing the feminized, antiwar, politically correct Democratic Party. He was your basic Reagan Democrat, fully loaded with a resonant, iron-edged voice and the ability to write razor lyrics that stuck in the mind and the craw. His brilliant anthem-Okie from Muskogee-became a rallying cry for those who were disgusted by the "hippies out in San Francisco" smoking marijuana and burning draft cards. His next patriotic volley had this chorus: "When they're runnin' down my country...
...write things down on little strips of paper, in drawers in the house, and I just procrastinate until it’s just preposterous, and I have to write,” he said...
...jujitsu move of acceding to the International Court of Justice ruling, but aggressively pursuing presidential powers at the same time," says Thomas Goldstein, who heads the Supreme Court practice of the Washington law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP. "The idea is that you can essentially write the states a note and tell them what to do. It's a very novel assertion of presidential powers...