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...namedropping a few ‘Poonster alums with whom he works with on the “SNL” writing staff. “Undoubtedly one of the biggest influences in my comedy comes from the Lampoon. Go down the list of people who are heroes of mine and a bunch were on the Lampoon.” And Taccone added that “some of the people I respect most in the comedy world were past [Lampoon] presidents...
...Count us!" they chorused, nearly 1 million of them, the silent middle class on a very noisy day out. Many were novice demonstrators. "This is the first time I've ever been to a rally," said Mine Okcuoglu, a 29-year-old banker, attending with her mom. "I felt that I had to do something because the government is taking Turkey in a direction I strongly object...
...huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair." Today, cable earns billions for the studios, as both a second home for feature films and gold-mine subsidiaries in studio-owned channels like MTV, HBO and Comedy Central...
...networks of people in the U.S.” “We saw that minority networks didn’t overlap with the recruiting networks,” said Sean M. Mendy, co-founder of GetConnects and a 2005 Cornell graduate. “I saw friends of mine that had business degrees who were working really menial jobs and thought it was a waste of talent.” William Wright-Swadel, director of Harvard’s Office of Career Services, said he thought that GetConnects could help students develop all-important networks, but that minority students...
...Decades later, the Fakir's stomping grounds are again ground zero in a war on terror. American, NATO and Pakistani troops face a hydra-like insurgency led by a string of shadowy extremist leaders who make expert use of the border's treacherous, land mine-riddled terrain, melting into the mountains only to resurface, ever stronger, from their myriad training camps and bases. "I doubt whether Washington in 2007 knows much more about what is happening in Waziristan than London did in 1937," says Alan Warren, a military historian and author of a book on Khan. If so, as with...