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...Bill Maher says Carlin was the comic who "inspired me to think I could do things differently." Richard Belzer marvels over the "precision" of his technique. Lewis Black, perhaps Carlin's most obvious heir as an angry social satirist, says he "raised the level of our craft." Garry Shandling recalls how, as a young student at the University of Arizona, he accosted Carlin before a club date, showed him some jokes he had written, and got the encouragement that prompted him to get into comedy. After showing the full-length clip of Carlin's "Ode to a Modern...
While those tied to the drug industry may disagree, they can take solace in more positive news: Waxman won't police DTC anytime soon. "We've got the stimulus bill with a number of important provisions, and I'd like to get onto the big issue, which is universal health care in this country," says Waxman. "And while we've got to be paying a lot of attention to the FDA in a number of respects, I think the food-safety issue is a lot more important than this one at the moment. So it's just not the highest...
...President Obama said. "We do not want to deny companies the ability to attract the talent pool they need." That's not good enough for some Senators, like Missouri's Claire McCaskill, who want to make the pay caps retroactive and intend to make that part of the stimulus bill...
...Malley can get firsthand advice on parliamentary maneuvers from a source very close to home. In 1978, the bill that eventually created Maryland's death penalty was held up for a time by the same senate committee before eventually being forced to a vote. Its chairman back then was a future state attorney general named J. Joseph Curran, a longtime opponent of capital punishment. These days he also happens to be the governor's father...
...lobbying efforts for a preset "cooling-off period" of two years. The chief sponsor of that effort happened to be Senator Obama. "Obama was the one who really became excited about the whole idea," says Craig Holman, a lobbyist for Public Citizen, a group that helped write the bill. "We lost that on the House side, initially. It was largely the committee chairmen who didn't want that in there...