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...childhood hero (1986-1991) • Moved to Los Angeles in 1983 and got his first major TV role in 1985 with a spot on the sitcom Sara, starring Geena Davis. The show was soon cancelled. • Created his first show, Politically Incorrect, in 1993. It premiered on Comedy Central and later moved to ABC. Maher called it "The McLaughlin Group on acid." Jerry Seinfeld was a guest on the first episode and the show became a huge Comedy Central hit. • Published a novel in 1994 and has written four other books • Said in 1996 that he would retire...
...There's also the approach favored by the late MIT economist Charles Kindleberger, who thought it was the job of governments and central banks to step in and halt panics, but felt they should "always leave it uncertain whether the rescue will arrive in time or at all, so as to instil caution." That seems to be official U.S. government policy at the moment, actually...
...event was sponsored by the Kennedy School’s Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe and co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies...
Some observers in Pakistan criticized the personnel shake-up as a response to U.S. pressure. The changes came just weeks after Richard Boucher, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, publicly demanded that reform of the ISI be carried out. They also followed last weekend's secret meeting between Pakistan's recently elected President, Asif Ali Zardari, and CIA head Michael Hayden about what the U.S. intelligence agency called the "double game played by Pakistan's spy agency." While in New York City for the United Nations General Assembly, Zardari told Roger Cohen...
...years since the end of the Second World War. Their latest coalition government lasted just 18 months and was widely considered a catastrophe for failing to produce a single major legislative initiative. The result also underscores growing unhappiness with an expanded European Union in a Central European country that has always felt vulnerable to migrant flows from the east. Immigration is controversial across Europe, but Austria's far right has been particularly skillful at focusing public anger on its alleged risks...