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...Bill Maher says Carlin was the comic who "inspired me to think I could do things differently." Richard Belzer marvels over the "precision" of his technique. Lewis Black, perhaps Carlin's most obvious heir as an angry social satirist, says he "raised the level of our craft." Garry Shandling recalls how, as a 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...
...fallacy, says one Wall Street veteran I talked to, is that anyone who occupies one of those golden chairs - global equities, say, or convertible bonds - is almost guaranteed to bring in business and get paid for it. "I could put a monkey in that chair and get a certain level of business," he said. With 46,000 financial jobs having been lost in New York City already, demand is falling, so the risk of losing talent to rivals is declining. The bigger question that should be asked of these big earners, says the Wall Street vet, is this: What...
...course, they did know your husband. Your friends are very similar to your children in their discomfort level and so on. When there's a loss due to divorce or death, it doesn't just affect the partner. It goes through the whole community, through the whole family, through the whole friendship network. And when you bring someone new in, everybody has to kind of move a little bit to the right or left to make room. So there's a period of adjustment...
...also to the withdrawal of excess estrogen, which may actually have served as a treatment for tiny, preclinical breast cancers. "When you change from a high- to a low-estrogen environment, it's like giving breast cancer treatment," he says. "These are preclinical cancers that are below the level of detection, and that accounts for why biologically we can see such a quick effect in stopping hormone therapy." In the three-year WHI study alone, there were 20,000 preclinical breast cancer cases among the women who continued taking hormone therapy - cancers that may potentially have been avoided...
Graham wrote that HDS will maintain the level of financial aid currently offered to students, though it will be unable to meet its previous goal of providing total financial coverage for all students with demonstrated need by the 2010 fiscal year...