Johns Hopkins University awards the 2020 President's Frontier Award during a surprise event on January 16, 2020 at the university's Homewood campus in Baltimore.
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Directed by Matia Karrell. A federal prosecutor's threat to indict Toby on another charge has the potential to affect the impending election.
Directed by Laura Innes. Both candidates face vital choices about which states to campaign in; Vinick tries to put the nuclear issue behind him; Bruno finds Santos's briefcase.
Directed by Alex Graves. The Vinick campaign struggles with the impact of the nuclear accident in California; Josh and Donna have a "moment".
Directed by Nisha Ganatra. With Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling, John Lithgow, Hugh Dancy. A late night talk show host suspects that she may soon lose her long-running show.
Well plotted with some excellent characters. Perhaps not as funny as I might have wanted, but they did have a handful of long play jokes that they set up from the first act that came back to land reasonably well.
Rating: ★★★½
For an influential group of American Christians, support for Israel -- and hatred of Iran -- are based in a biblical prophecy.
When President Trump authorized the drone strike that killed the powerful Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, he wasn't just flexing America's muscle in the Middle East.
He was also acting on the advice of a politically powerful group of evangelical Christians who believe that the US and Israel are part of the Bible's plan to bring about the second coming of Jesus.
Once considered a fringe element of the religious right, evangelical Christian Zionists are playing an increasingly visible role in Republican politics. Today, unprecedented access to the Trump administration has given them an opportunity to reshape the Middle East.
Additional reading:
https://newrepublic.com/article/156166/pence-pompeo-evanglicals-war-iran-christian-zionismhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/14/half-of-evangelicals-support-israel-because-they-believe-it-is-important-for-fulfilling-end-times-prophecy/
https://www.vox.com/2018/11/5/18059454/trump-white-evangelicals-christian-nationalism-john-fea
A previous version of this video misstated, at 1:40, the percentage of Americans who are Christian but neither Evangelical nor Catholic. The error has been corrected.
The headline on this piece has also been updated. Previous headline: How the Bible shapes Trump's foreign policy
There’s religion, and then there’s just crazy pants.
Hair Love, an Oscar®-winning animated short film from Matthew A. Cherry, tells the heartfelt story of an African American father learning to do his daughter’s hair for the first time.
Directed by Andy Tennant. With Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kevin James, Amber Valletta. While helping his latest client woo the woman of his dreams, a professional "date doctor" finds that his game doesn't quite work on the gossip columnist with whom he's smitten.
I always did love this as a pitch.
Rating: ★★★★½
Directed by Richard Marquand. With Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams. After a daring mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels dispatch to Endor to destroy the second Death Star. Meanwhile, Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side without falling into the Emperor's trap.
Continuing the series in chronological order. Saw this with the monkey tonight. Surprised that she wasn’t scared at all by it.
Something that I noticed on this screening that I hadn’t before: In Empire, Leia tells Han, “I love you,” and he replies, “I know.” At the end of this episode when threatened with death, he tells her “I love you,” and she replies, “I know.” The parallelism of this is subtle but fantastic!
Rating: ★★★★
Directed by Irvin Kershner. With Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams. After the Rebels are brutally overpowered by the Empire on the ice planet Hoth, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader and a bounty hunter named Boba Fett all over the galaxy.
This one really holds up pretty well. Watched it with the monkey for the first time.
Rating: ★★★★
Directed by Alex Graves. A live debate between Santos and Vinick, performed once for the east coast and once for the west.
Passively watching. I never really liked this episode. It does make me wonder what happened to Forrest Sawyer who was a big newscaster in Georgia as I was growing up.
Listen to “No Time To Die”, the theme song for the 25th James Bond film.
This is interesting and relatively Bond-like, but not as powerful as many in the past.
When Winona Ryder returns to her birthplace of Winona, Minnesota to create a project with Squarespace, the local Winonans take notice.
Winona embarks on journey of self discovery to find the true Winona. First stop: Winona.
View Winona’s photo essay at https://www.WelcomeToWinona.com
I’m not sure I quite got the shorter version that aired during the Super Bowl.
I do quite like their tagline here of “A website makes it real”.