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...Washington has been watching all the ferment and doesn't know whether to laugh or cry--or try to get in on the action. There was never much private industry in D.C. For years the biggest private employer was the Washington Post. Because of the relative scarcity of large private fortunes, there were very few big locally owned banks. Power and influence were the currency. Elected officials, lobbyists, lawyers and consultants lived and worked in the same neighborhoods, schmoozing over lunches and dinners and cigars at watering holes like Duke Ziebert's and country clubs like Burning Tree. What mattered...
...permeates the entire jape, detoxifying it. There's a geniality to gags about ratings ("Hey, hey, M.P.A.A., how many movies did you censor today?") and Robin Williams weepies ("Patch Adams does not deserve a director's cut; the original was long enough"). Waters wants everyone to have a good laugh, targets and audience included...
...weapon in a sport in which major tournament pressure can crush even great players. Woods has "the ability to stay in the present during a tournament and focus on hitting one shot at a time," Duran says. Woods' profane outbursts, once common, are now rare. He has learned to laugh at himself more often, which he did even when he made a triple-bogey in the third round at the U.S. Open...
iCAST also has a "track of the day" (a recent pick by the alternative-rock duo Tegan and Sara was particularly good). In addition, the site held a "Land Your Band" contest in which groups were rated by iCAST users, with the highest-rated act (the rock group Laughing Colors, based in Annapolis, Md.) winning meetings with major-label executives. "I kind of laugh at all this Napster stuff," says Laughing Colors lead singer Dave Tieff. "At our stage, offering free tracks makes sense. We're trying to get noticed, and promotions like this are a tool." Tieff says sales...
...such a thing as an American culture. The consensus: no. Americans had jeans, Hollywood and fast food. We had image. The French, the people who have 246 different kinds of cheese and are responsible for the words laissez-faire, joie de vivre and restaurant, had culture. Now, I laugh at my innocent naivete. American culture is stronger than Microsoft stock pre anti-trust ruling. I know because I tried...