Word: jon
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Before the 2000 catastrophe surrounding hanging chads and butterfly ballots, few people were watching The Daily Show with Jon Stewart or knew its veteran correspondent Stephen Colbert. Since then, however, the two comedians have come to be recognized by Time Magazine as among the most influential figures in American politics. Politicians have become eager to be special guests on their shows, indicating the perceived power these two men have over a contingent of relatively young, often disillusioned voters...
...waters for the Harvard sailors, as the team couldn’t muster better than 11th place in any of its five regattas. Women’s captain Megan Watson finished 12th at the ICSA Women’s Singlehanded Championship at Cornell, and co-ed captain Jon Garrity led the way for the Crimson’s best finish on the weekend at the Hoyt Trophy. Both the co-ed and women’s squads have one final chance to qualify for the ACC Championship this weekend.ICSA WOMEN’S SINGLEHANDED CHAMPIONSHIPWatson spent a three-day weekend...
...bigger issue is whether the risk-taking, hard-charging, high-living times will give way to a quieter, duller, less profitable and far more regulated era--not so much a golden age as a golden cage. The debt-fueled days are almost certainly history. Jon Lloyd, joint head of LG's real estate practice, points out that the investment-banking mentality of the past few years--ever bigger fees for ever more complex transactions--has spread to all sorts of businesses, from law to real estate. He wonders if that's all about to change. "Will we as advisers fall...
...After waking up bright and early (read: noon) on the Fifth, I set out with my roommate Jon, his friend Tim, and one of my fellow interns, Kevin, to explore Haight-Ashbury, a neighborhood famous for spawning the hippie movement of the 1960s. We made our way down the central vein of the neighborhood, which brought us to the entrance of Golden Gate Park, an urban green space of more than 1000 acres, making it larger than Frederick Olmsted’s creation in New York City. Having heard that there were live buffalo in the park...
...gone on the show to promote my first book, The Areas of My Expertise. I was already a huge fan of The Daily Show, and I thought, Okay, this is about as strange as it's going to get in my life. I had a good time, Jon Stewart and I got along, and they ended up asking me to do comedy on a semi-regular basis. So then I thought, Okay, this is as strange as it's going to get. The book had been doing okay, but it was taking its time finding an audience, as a highly...