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...RUNNING NEW YORK DIFFERENT FROM RUNNING A LARGE MEDIA CORPORATION? I always joke, one's a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one's just the opposite. But I think there is much more scrutiny from the media, which makes innovation very difficult, because innovation--by definition--is, you don't know how it is going to come...
...lived on her own in an apartment until age 98 but now shares a house in Worthington, Ohio, with her daughter Julie Johnson, 81, and Julie's husband Bruce, 83. In fact, Johnston's mind is so sharp that she still solves word jumbles in her head; remembers joke punch lines; and, when she has trouble sleeping, runs through the names of her 36 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, rather than counting sheep...
Spyros isn't happy. he's had 40 years of Athens' notorious traffic, but this is beyond a joke. His car is crawling in a line of vehicles that snakes up the main road to the beachside suburb of Vouliagmeni, stymied by a local bus that seems to stop every 50 m. "One hundred fifty-six euros," Spyros says, nodding enviously at the empty outside lane. The five red rings on the shimmering asphalt mark it as reserved for official Olympic transport, and the fine is savage...
...drag to wear a burqa because I always get chased by kids for an autograph. They think I'm Darth Vader." To loud applause, Shabana Rehman shakes off the burqa to reveal a skimpy red cocktail dress underneath. She promises to tell the audience "the dirtiest joke you ever heard," and then proceeds to do so - in Urdu. The crowd loves it. Rehman, one of Norway's best-known comedians, has made a career out of poking fun and provoking outrage at the predicament of conservative Muslim immigrants in socially and sexually permissive Scandinavia. She makes jokes about everything from...
...boosted the popularity of their sports. "I'm not some staunch feminist who wants to tell girls that they have to wrestle," says Miranda. "I just want them to know that they can." At a high school tournament her junior year, someone in the crowd yelled, "You're a joke!" She wept in the bathroom after the match. "It was the best thing that ever happened to me," she says. "I was able to know that I could take my worst...