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...list yet? There's nothing I can ever do to get off the D list. I was working on some show and the sound guy was putting my microphone on, and he kept talking about when we'd worked together before, but none of it rang a bell. Finally it dawned on me and I said, "I think you're talking about someone else." And he went, "Oh yeah, sorry." If that happens, you know you're on the D list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedian Kathy Griffin | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...seem to be NBC's dominant Today, which will have the two strongest brand-name personalities in Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer. But producers there aren't exactly fist-pumping. "Success in the morning is more about a show's brand and identity than any one talent," says Jim Bell, Today's executive producer. Today proved it could beat a big gun like Sawyer. Who knows what weapon ABC will be forced by necessity to haul out next? "In many ways, she was the devil we knew," says a Today exec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diane Sawyer's Exit Leaves a Hole on GMA's Couch | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

Pforzheimer House: 1. A nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to walk there. 2. Home to the Bell Tower and other good party spots that you will drunkenly make your way to and from during freshman year...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dictionary of Harvardisms | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

...this briefing." Chu's only simple question - aside from "Will this explode?" - was "What percentage of your profit goes to science?" About 15% to 25%, the CEO explained. "That's very good," Chu said with a sigh. The entire visit reminded Chu of the futuristic spirit he loved at Bell Labs. "This was a power company, but it had the flavor of a high-tech company," he told me later. "They're looking at the long view." In short, they're Wayne Gretzky - and Chu is obviously worried that we're not, that we've lost our ability to focus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Steven Chu Win the Fight Over Global Warming? | 8/23/2009 | See Source »

...Welcome to Washington, where a Nobel Prize winner's opinion is just another opinion, where facts are malleable and sometimes irrelevant. It's tough to be Mr. Outside in a town where policy happens on the inside. Congress is blocking Chu's plan to create eight "Bell lablets" to investigate his game changers, along with his efforts to scuttle hydrogen-car research he considers futile. He's trying to make DOE's bureaucracy more nimble, but it still pushed less than 1% of its stimulus funds out the door in five months. And while Chu ends speeches with Martin Luther...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Steven Chu Win the Fight Over Global Warming? | 8/23/2009 | See Source »

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