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...disaster. Pausing for a 17-minute speech rebutting his critics for calling him "dangerous" and "crazy," he took out the block-tower game. On opposite sides of the tower were written the words solution and problem, taxpayer and children. Then he spent much of the hour critiquing the plan, all the while pulling pieces from the wobbling tower and stacking them on top. (Read an interview with Glenn Beck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glenn Beck: The Fears of a Clown | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...Beck, Jenga is a metaphor for the plan's risk. But it is also a metaphor for Beck's show, which teeters from humor to predictions of apocalypse to self-esteem sermons to fits of weeping. ("I'm sorry. I just love my country. And I fear for it.") This is what makes it so compelling: the breathless feeling that at any moment, everything could spectacularly collapse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glenn Beck: The Fears of a Clown | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...point where we work together very well and we’ve learned to be pretty tolerant of each other’s shortcomings. 9. FM: You’re performing the same day as Sara Bareilles. Have you ever met her before and how do you plan to out-perform her?EM: No. I’ve never heard her music; I don’t know anything about her. But I’m looking forward to it. Maybe she’ll out-perform us. Maybe I’ll look her up on YouTube or something...

Author: By Kate A Borowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions with Evan Mast from Ratatat | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...lowdown on the horses we’re playing,” Crocker says. He’s gathered the team into a room before the game against UConn, and his plan is simple: Botero and Scalise would run off the men to keep Nick free to drive the ball...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grabbing the Reins | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...that plague the continent. “You need to work with people on the ground,” Frazer said. “We need to see an African leader in the Oval Office.” Frazer said the establishment of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)—a $15 billion effort that she said has saved over 1.5 million lives—had lessons for future policies in the region. The active involvement of African leaders in developing and implementing the program was crucial to its success, Frazer said, adding...

Author: By Kevin Lin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IOP Hosts Expert on African Affairs | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

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