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Have you interviewed anyone who made you really nervous? - Barb Micetic Lancaster, Gridley, Ill. The worst interview I ever conducted was with TV host Steve Allen, who was having a bad day and decided that one-word answers should suffice. The interview felt like about a week and a half, and I think it took 20 minutes. (Read Walter Isaacson's tribute to Brian Williams in the TIME...
...team has used Twitter on occasion. I see it as kind of a time suck that I don't need any more of. Just too much "I got the most awesome new pair of sweatpants." I'm going to go ahead and assume that people buy awesome sweatpants every day and that I don't need to know them by name...
...released a couple of weeks ago that showed Florida Governor Charlie Crist dropping into a tie with former state House speaker Marco Rubio - an underdog Crist had led by more than 20 points last summer - in next year's Republican primary race for the U.S. Senate. But the next day, Crist was still being Crist. Seemingly ignoring the GOP conservatives who've been lambasting him for reversing much of the red-meat legacy of his predecessor, Jeb Bush, Crist enthusiastically signed a bill expanding passenger rail in Florida - including a high-speed train system Bush made a point of quashing...
Four full days into his Hawaii vacation, Barack Obama went to Marine Corps Base Hawaii at Kaneohe Bay on Monday for his usual 50-minute workout and made a brief stop at the Kailua Racquet Club, a 72-year-old club that was established as a private hideaway amid a forest but is now in the middle of a residential neighborhood. (He may have played tennis with the First Lady, but that has not been confirmed.) Then the President put on a suit coat - but no tie - as he faced the nation to talk about the attempted terrorist attack...
Monday's bombing comes at a sensitive time for Pakistan, as President Asif Ali Zardari appears to be battling for his political survival. A day earlier, while marking the second anniversary of the slaying of his wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Zardari raised a defiantly worded warning that democracy was imperiled. Since the Supreme Court earlier this month struck down an amnesty that had cleared Zardari and some of his closest aides of long-standing corruption charges, pressure has increased on the presidential palace, slowly eating away at the occupant's authority and raising the prospect of a destabilizing...