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Political satire, of course, has had its ups and downs in American comedy. The Eisenhower 1950s proved a fruitful time for outsider satirists like Mort Sahl and Lenny Bruce, and the counterculture years of the late '60s and '70s gave rise to stand-up social commentators like George Carlin, Richard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedy in the Obama Age: The Joking Gets Hard | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

American politicians have a tendency to attach too much hope to elections as a salvation for long-oppressed peoples. But we've learned in Iraq that a vote can't deliver citizens from harm if it doesn't also deliver good government. Getting the winners of Afghanistan's election to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

Young Blankfein thrived. He stayed out of trouble by not getting off the school bus when he saw things happening that made him uncomfortable. He studied hard. He was the valedictorian of his 1971 graduating class at the predominantly black Thomas Jefferson High School. At 16, he applied to Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rage Over Goldman Sachs | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

Blankfein's career took off. He seemed to have a sixth sense about when to push traders to take more risk and when to take their collective feet off the accelerator. "It's not about hanging on to a predisposition," Blankfein told FORTUNE in March 2008. "The best traders are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rage Over Goldman Sachs | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

My main challenge in setting up the panel will be getting the public to accept that there's a limited amount of health care to ration. To figure out my marketing plan, I called an Eskimo, since everyone thinks Eskimo are adorable despite the fact that they sent old people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein: If I Ran the Death Panels | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

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