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Dean began his half-hour speech—the first of the afternoon’s agenda, which lasted over three hours—by mocking his concession address after the Iowa caucus earlier this year. After that enthusiastic January speech, in which Dean recited a list of states he vowed to visit and then let out a scream, the then-candidate slipped rapidly in the polls, leading many pundits to speculate that it had turned voters off to Dean...
...inconsistently in a story. "Sorry to wake you," he says to the reporter he's rung at 11 p.m. As final deadline advances, the newsroom is all silent concentration. Cleaners come and go. While the third edition cut-off is officially 12.30 a.m., changes can be made for another half-hour, and with 15 min. left, deputy night editor Helen McCabe spots a weak first paragraph. Eleven hours into her shift, she coolly begins rewriting. Within minutes the story's refiled, and the paper is done and gone. Journalist friends say they can't understand why she gave up writing...
...team of American master animators comes up with the look of each character, and scriptwriters determine the plots and dialogue?the task of creating each episode is outsourced to Indian animators, allowing the American company to lower its costs by up to 50%. A typical half-hour 3-D cartoon episode can cost $70,000 to $100,000 to produce in India compared with...
...much of his time helping the new interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, get up to speed on all that will be required of him. On a recent Sunday, after a lengthy lunch with Jaafari--during which Bremer got to use some of the Arabic he has learned in daily half-hour lessons--he confers with the new Prime Minister in the green zone. The meeting with Allawi is about staffing a Prime Minister's office and a new anticorruption law that is about to be implemented. Bremer listens, offers advice. There are no orders given. The dictator's time...
Comedy Central tried to convert Stein’s popularity into further ratings success by developing a talk show, 1999’s “Turn Ben Stein On.” But the show—a half-hour interview format with a theme song written and performed by the host himself—was short-lived, and with the end of “Money” in 2002, Stein must now make due without a cable television program bearing his name...