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Last Call's Carson Daly, who will host NBC's New Year's Eve broadcast, spoke to TIME's Rebecca Winters Keegan to explain why he became the first late-night host to return to TV during the writers' strike. He also argues that the Times Square ball-drop is TiVo-proof and talks about what happens now that user-generated content is "sort of over...
...fewer and fewer places for destination television. When Seinfeld was on NBC on Thursday nights, you had to go home and watch it. You couldn't get it anywhere else. Now Americans are watching on their iPods, their computers, their DVRs. You're not gonna record the ball drop and watch it later...
...safety. Elijah Wald, author of a recent book on narco corridos, argues that entertainers are not being specifically targeted. They are just in the same circles as many drug traffickers and are caught up in the jealousies and arguments that afflict everyone in that world. "If you were to drop a bomb on a random party of drug traffickers you would always get a few musicians," Wald says. "Singers also attract the attention of people's wives and girlfriends, which could be enough to get them killed. The rising gangsters gain their reputation by proving how much they are cold...
...virtues of Sunni fighters. But that is what happened just a few days ago, on Dec. 21, when Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the leader of Iraq's largest Shi'ite political party, offered some praise for the mostly Sunni volunteers who have been key to this year's dramatic drop in insurgent violence. "They are practicing an honorable role, they are expressing the unity of Iraqis in confronting the enemies of Iraq...
...problem - particularly in a French President who likes to cast himself as "the American" leader unafraid of adopting the dynamic aspects of U.S. society he feels France needs? First off, because even as it follows Sarkozy's lead to reform elsewhere, much of French society still remains unwilling to drop the traditional attitudes that frown upon the flaunting of wealth, and which divide the celebrity of showbiz and the recognition of political leadership in separate categories. Sarkozy may well express his admiration for the career trajectory of Arnold Schwarzenegger, but French voters take politics too seriously to let that kind...