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...demonstrators outside the embassy were a ragtag bunch. Their rank included cancer survivors, unemployed tradesmen and an elderly woman too wobbly to manage both a protest placard and a cane - in short, precisely the people socialized health care is designed to save. Jon Burden, whose wife's breast cancer is in remission, said he wanted critics to know that "without the NHS either my wife would be dead or I would be broke...
...stand-up had mostly retreated to the home front (Roseanne Barr), the trivia of everyday life (Jerry Seinfeld) and the carefully nonpartisan "topical" jokes of Johnny Carson. In the George W. Bush years, political comedy came back in style, not just for late-night hosts like David Letterman and Jon Stewart - who are far more willing than Carson was to let their (usually left-of-center) political views show through - but also for the foot soldiers of the comedy clubs, where even guys who made their living from penis jokes were getting laughs from...
...writing the book, Kennedy collaborated with Ron Powers, co-author of the No. 1 best seller Flags of Our Fathers and author of the critically acclaimed Mark Twain: A Life. Jon Karp, the editor in chief and publisher of Twelve, edited the book. In a statement, he described working with Kennedy as "the greatest experience of my 20 years in the publishing business." (Karp declined an interview.) He said, "For the past two years, I've had the incredible opportunity of asking Senator Kennedy every question I could think of - and receiving answers that deepened my understanding of national politics...
Season 3 picks up several months after Season 2 ended, in spring 1963. Don Draper (Jon Hamm), an ad executive who changed his identity to hide his poor background, has returned to his wife Betty (January Jones), who's taken him back after a string of infidelities. Yet in the first episode, when he's away from Betty and sees another chance to adopt a new persona, he slips into it like an old pair of loafers...
...shell out about $39 billion worth of short-term stimulus projects - nearly 150% of its normal annual budget - while reorienting its long-term research and development toward artificial photosynthesis, advanced batteries and other technologies he envisions as low-emissions "game changers." Chu plays up his geeky image - he gave Jon Stewart a Nerds of America Society T shirt on-air - but he's no ivory-tower ingenue. "Energy," he says, "is all about money." He cut his teeth in the entrepreneurial culture of Bell Labs and spent the rest of his career around Silicon Valley; he's served...