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...Obama somehow morphs from untouchable messiah into comic goldmine, something will still be missing. Colbert and Stewart are fundamentally opposition figures—Stewart once described his job as “throwing spitballs” from the back of the room. This outsider status is a key element of their identity. For years, I have watched their shows because, in a country seemingly dominated by conservative ideologues, they offered an oasis where Right was still wrong, and laughter could lighten the burden of the very unfunny things happening to America...
...based compensation was equity in the firm," says James Wiener, head of the finance and risk practice at the consultancy Oliver Wyman. Employees at Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns owned some 30% of their companies. At the end of the day, that didn't matter. Because altering a foundational element of an industry is difficult...
...contested in the days leading up to the election, earning opposition from progressive Mayor Gavin Newsom and many others who worried that legalizing the world's oldest profession would make it easier for women to enter the sex trade, while also making it more dangerous by drawing a criminal element around prostitution. Meanwhile, advocates said it would have improved health care for sex workers and helped them report abuse...
Even antipurple people have gotten sucked in by the color's zeitgeistiness. "I always hated purple, and I hated people who were into purple," says Manhattan-based designer Thakoon Panichgul, a favorite of Michelle Obama's who in December will launch a collection at Target. "But it has an element of angst that I gravitated to this season...
...20th century, but that each and every one manages to capture some je ne sais quoi of their subject, effortlessly revealing in a single frame either some private moment of the public persona, or some prominent, popular understanding of the individual. The signature element to the Karsh images is the interplay between black and white, shadow and light, and the crisp, clean, solid lines that lend the prints their clarity and poignant definition. It is this element that crystallizes the personalities of the subjects in the eyes of the beholder. Eisenhower, Castro, Khrushchev, Kennedy, Bogart, Loren, Karloff, Hepburn, Auden, Hemingway...