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...Because she's desperate for money (her challenging son Oscar, played by Jason Spevack, needs to go to private school), Rose gets into the more lucrative end of the cleaning business: tidying up suicides and sponging up blood and guts at crime scenes, a plot apparently inspired by an NPR story. She takes as her partner her sister Norah (Emily Blunt), a young woman who has so consistently screwed up that she's practically paralyzed...
...used to listen to him in the car...I'd notice that I disagreed with everything he was saying, yet I not only wanted to keep listening, I actually liked him." - NPR's Ira Glass, The New York Times Magazine, July...
...January 12, NPR broadcast an interview given by the neoconservative economist N. Gregory Mankiw, the former chair of President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisors and professor at Harvard University. I agree with Dr. Mankiw’s support for free trade and his expression of disappointment that the Republican-controlled Congress did not reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. However, most of his ideas are precisely what led to our country’s current economic disaster...
...Obama dispensed with tradition entirely. He took a question from Helen Thomas, the grandmother clock of the White House press corps (as in, much loved but slightly erratic). And he took questions from reporters from the four big networks, CNN, Bloomberg, the New York Times, the Washington Post and NPR. There were big-city newspapers he overlooked (plus, ahem, newsmagazines), but giving the Huffington Post a question seemed to be more gestural than suggestive of an unwillingness to work with the mainstream media. As if to prove this, the next day Obama came to the press cabin of Air Force...
Partly because Rivers is Rivers - willing to say anything for a laugh - her book has won a great deal of media attention. She's done the predictable Regis-Rachael Ray-Jimmy Kimmel appearances, but she's also been in the New York Times and on NPR to promote her view that women should undergo as many cosmetic procedures as they can afford. "Looking good," she and Frankel write, "equals feeling good ... I'd rather look younger and feel happy than look older and be depressed." But are they right? Does cosmetic surgery actually make you feel better...