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...young student at the University of Arizona, he accosted Carlin before a club date, showed him some jokes he had written, and got the encouragement that prompted him to get into comedy. After showing the full-length clip of Carlin's "Ode to a Modern Man," his late-career masterpiece in which he boils every 21st century buzzword into a dazzling three-minute rant ("I've been uplinked and downloaded; I've been inputted and outsourced: I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading...."), Jon Stewart simply shakes his head in something close to awe: "Just...
After Tom Daschle met with his former colleagues on the Senate Finance Committee behind closed doors on late Monday, the Obama Administration's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services told close associates the session had gone well. Daschle said privately that it looked as though he would weather the controversy that had begun with revelations that he had failed to pay $128,000 in taxes, most of which arose from his use of a car and driver provided to him by a private-equity firm for which he had consulted...
...majority leader's nomination had become a repudiation of the very things Obama had promised to change in Washington. And coming on the heels of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's failure to pay nearly $40,000 in taxes, Daschle's nomination was turning into fodder for political opponents and late-night comedians. It didn't help matters that on Tuesday morning, another Obama appointee, Nancy Killefer, withdrew her name from consideration for the position of chief White House performance officer amid reports that she had failed to pay unemployment taxes for household help in the District of Columbia...
...daughter Aisha was part of late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's defense team during Saddam's 2005 trial...
...delivering a nuclear warhead into test position; should a launch follow - and South Korean sources say they now expect one in the next month or two - it would be the most provocative act the North has taken since it tested a nuclear weapon in fall 2006. Furthermore, Pyongyang announced late last week that it will no longer recognize any political or military agreements struck with Seoul, including a border demarcation in the so-called West Sea, where there have been two bloody clashes between the North and South in the past decade...