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During a performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Cory Kahaney recalled being asked at a party what she did for a living. I said, I m a comedian, and they looked at me with shock and horror and they re like: Oh, that is the hardest job! I could never do that job. . And obviously, this person doesn t know I work an hour a night, including the commute, joked Kahaney of the length of a stand-up routine.
Obviously, comedy takes days and months and years to perfect. Kahaney, a past finalist on NBC s Last Comic Standing, is one of the rare stand-up performers who makes a living at her craft.
The trailblazing work of Melinda French Gates, a philanthropist, advocate for the rights of women and girls, and fighter for gender equity, was the focus of Radcliffe Day on Friday afternoon, Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s annual event to honor a leader who has devoted his or her life to excellence, opportunity, and service.
N.J. should act to protect abortion rights with Supreme Court case looming, advocates say NJ.com 2 hrs ago Susan K. Livio, nj.com
Female lawmakers and pro-choice advocates in New Jersey have warned that abortion rights are under threat since the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg eight months ago and the appointment of conservative jurist Amy Coney Barrett to replace her.
On Monday, those concerns intensified after the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would review Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The case strikes at the heart of Roe V. Wade, the landmark case that established a woman’s right to an abortion in 1973 and is the first abortion case for the nation’s highest court since former President Trump appointed three conservative justices.