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...country, with most of the cash coming from out of state. Franken, who moved from New York back to his home state nearly three years ago for this election, has been on the defensive from the start, as Coleman has mined all sorts of offensive lines from thousands of jokes the comedian has told over his 57 years. "It's uncharted territory," says Franken. "They pull out a bit about a speech to Hartford Technical College, which is a made-up school. The bit was me pretending I was a jerk, but no one in their right mind would think...
...trying to be the Bill O'Reilly of the left, ranting as a host on Air America and writing books like Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations, Franken didn't have to modulate his personality. Now he has cut way back on the joking and has become a little more boring than people are used to. Which wouldn't be a big deal - he's still funnier than any other candidate in American history - but voters here are so familiar with him that a little holding back erodes his authenticity. "Occasionally, I go, 'Oh, there...
...tend to do so later in life and thus have shorter political careers. Yvonne Johnson, the mayor of Greensboro, N.C. - where six of nine city council members are women - has figured out how to do it all. "They tell you being mayor is a part-time job. What a joke," says Johnson, who has four adult children and also directs a nonprofit organization. "I work on the balance all the time...
...plot of Black and White is engrossing from the get-go. The first murder victim is a much-hated editor who supervised the newspaper's standards of word choice, and who personifies the tyrannical, pretentious side of the Times. (The inside joke here is that the victim, Theodore Ratnoff, is portrayed as a tall and handsome strapping blond, while the real editor of standards, Allan Siegal, was short and heroically rotund.) His body is discovered with a telling item stuck into his chest: a newspaper spike, the symbol of days gone by, when an editor rejecting copy would spike...
Rick Warren has Rick Warren syndrome. That's not a joke. He has a brain disorder. "I was born with it," he says. "I went to the Mayo Clinic, and the doctors said, 'We have found a dozen or so other people with this. There's no name, so maybe we'll just call it the Warren syndrome." He describes the ailment's chemistry as an inability to process his body's own adrenaline. Its symptoms are tremors, disorientation and pain, and, as he says, "it makes my brain move very fast." I ask - since a colleague...