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...spent a lot of time - as in from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. every day - watching television. As a kid, he'd push his tape recorder against the TV so he could transcribe every episode of Saturday Night Live. At his high school radio station, he wangled interviews with comedians like Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno and Steve Allen; at 15 he started doing stand-up at clubs. He's such a giant comedy nerd that after proudly playing me snippets of his Garry Shandling interview from high school, he takes me into his office in his huge Pacific Palisades, Calif...
...these factors in the cauldron and you create a poisonous atmosphere that makes legislative action on big issues almost impossible. It is also a prescription for conservative governance of the sort that has thrived since Ronald Reagan. Doing nothing is the easiest thing. (Read TIME's exclusive health-care interview with Obama...
...interview in the Oval Office, Obama did not attempt to hide his frustration. "This has been the most difficult test for me so far in public life, trying to describe in clear, simple terms how important it is that we reform this system. The case is so clear to me. And when I sit with our policy advisers," he told me, pointing across the room to the spot where Kocher had given his presentation hours before, "when you start hearing the litany of facts, what you say to yourself is, This shouldn't be such a hard case to make...
...interview, Obama noted correctly that there is broad agreement about how to fix the inequities and inefficiencies of the current system: new insurance rules to make certain that people won't lose their coverage if they get sick; a marketplace or "exchange" where small businesses and those without coverage could purchase what suits them best; research that would show which treatments were effective and which were wasteful; a payment system that would give health-care providers incentives to focus on the quality rather than the quantity of care. And Obama has laid down a marker that any bill that passes...
...Revolutionary Guards Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari - may seek to further militarize the already repressive regime. One fundamentalist group linked to the Basij paramilitary force has gone public with plans to wrestle power from Ahmadinejad by advancing its own "desired Cabinet lineup." The spokesman, Lotfali Bakhtiari, said in an interview published in the newspaper Khabar, "Our organization intends to become the government's think tank. We want to introduce our élite into the government to serve the country...