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Management consultant Yul Kwon used his lawyer skills to win Survivor: Cook Islands in 2006. Now, he's entered another place known for outwitting, outplaying and outlasting - the Beltway. Kwon, 34, works as the deputy chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau. It's his job to help foster an alliance between the public and the government to solve thorny issues related to tech access, tech safety and the use of public airwaves. "It's such a contrast," Kwon tells People. "Being in an environment where you have no communications and no technology to being in an area where you »
- Cynthia Wang

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Josh Friedlander has sold his original comedy screenplay "One Night Stan" to Lionsgate. "Harold and Kumar" creators Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg are set to direct. "Stan" plays out a scenario about which many men fantasize on the cusp of marriage. When Stan learns his fiancee, Julie, has had more sexual partners than he, he gets her blessing for one night to play catch-up. Unfortunately, his plans for a sex buffet don't come together quite the way he had hoped. Hurwitz and Schlossberg have also written and will direct "'Til Beth Do Us Part" for Warner Bros, and their comedy script "Grandma vs. Grandma" is set up at Paramount. Since Kal Penn is now working for President Obama, it's unlikely that we will see "A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas" any time soon. »

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Update 9/24: Effective this afternoon, Yosi Sergant has resigned from the Nea. Although the organization admitted there was no wrongdoing on his behalf, they did issue new communication guidelines from within the White House.
Yosi Sergant is an energetic grassroots organizer beloved by the art community who was whisked into the White House after working on the Obama campaign. The 33-year-old formerly Los Angeles-based publicist was responsible for bringing Shepard Fairey's Hope poster to ubiquitous prominence and also coordinated Manifest Hope, an exhibition of 31 artists who created posters for the Obama campaign in an exhibition during the Denver convention.
But on Wednesday, Sergant resigned as director of communications for the National Endowment for the Arts (although he still remains employed by the Nea) purportedly due to a misuse--or misunderstanding--of the Nea's role in supporting artists.
In his role at the Nea, Sergant had organized a rather groundbreaking summit in »
- Alissa Walker

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