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...came off stage, and the manager at the club said, You know, this guy named David Letterman just saw you. I was like, Wow! I was excited because he didn't even have his morning show yet, but we knew he was a great comic. But I got a call the next day from the talent coordinator of the Tonight Show who said, David Letterman said he saw you and that you might be a good candidate for the Tonight Show. I didn't get on until 12 years after, but once Dave got his NBC show, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Carol Leifer, Late Bloomer | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...focusing on the future,” said Kristen Rupert, executive director of the Massachusetts Alliance for International Business. Yet some left the lecture frustrated by Dinkic’s vagueness. Mira Popopic, who said she was a University of Massachusetts Ph.D., challenged Dinkic’s call for Serbian experts to return to the country, saying she would move home “tomorrow” if the country had a job for her. But Dinkic avoided answering her question, instead speaking at length about handling adversity in the job market and remaining hopeful. Still, Dinkic?...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Serbian Official Offers Economic Advice | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...advocacy. Sola refers to Harvard students as the workers’ “secret weapon.”“SECRET WEAPON” SLAM activists realize that the student voice is a powerful “secret weapon” and seek to use it to call attention to the workers’ plight. “[The workers] don’t have the same access to people that can make changes at Harvard as the students do,” Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09 says...

Author: By Kristen L. Cronon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SLAM Works For The Workers | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...Americans want our borders secured now more than ever," declared William Gheen, head of Americans for Legal Immigration. The North Carolina-based group is calling on the Obama Administration to shut down the southern border. "This latest in a series of health threats emanating from Mexico speaks loudly for border security, and the government's failure to respond accordingly should be a wake-up call for all Americans," Gheen said in a statement posted on the group's website. (See pictures of the Great Wall of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calls to Shut U.S.-Mexico Border Grow in Flu Scare | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...overcome any Republican filibusters meant to stall President Barack Obama's legislative agenda. But while Specter was just one of three Republicans to support Obama's $789 billion economic-recovery legislation, he cautioned his newfound Democratic colleagues: "I will not be an automatic 60th vote." They don't call him a contrarian for nothing. (Read "GOP Senator Specter's Party Switch Gives Obama a 100-Day Gift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arlen Specter: A Republican No More | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

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