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Political satire, of course, has had its ups and downs in American comedy. The Eisenhower 1950s proved a fruitful time for outsider satirists like Mort Sahl and Lenny Bruce, and the counterculture years of the late '60s and '70s gave rise to stand-up social commentators like George Carlin, Richard Pryor and Robert Klein. By the '80s, however, stand-up had mostly retreated to the home front (Roseanne Barr), the trivia of everyday life (Jerry Seinfeld) and the carefully nonpartisan "topical" jokes of Johnny Carson. In the George W. Bush years, political comedy came back in style, not just...
Goldman's riches have deflected the spotlight from what should be great story fodder: Blankfein's personal journey from one of New York City's poorest neighborhoods to its most élite investment bank - and his astounding rise within Goldman. Instead, he has to explain Goldman's performance - and connections - in the face of the nation's epic financial calamity. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...selected to run J. Aron. His appetite for risk quickly surfaced. In 1995 he chided his fellow partners for being too risk-averse and promptly left a conference room where they were meeting to place a multimillion-dollar bet with the firm's money that the dollar would rise against the yen. Blankfein's bet - one of his favorites - paid off, and he impressed his partners as a prudent risk taker. He would do the same thing - exhort them to take greater risks - 10 years later and then persuade them to reverse course after December...
...passion for helping the poor and disenfranchised, which was reflected in many of the over 300 successful bills he sponsored during his tenure in the Senate. “When it came to that topic, a fire would come in his eyes and you could see him rise in his chair and fill with passion,” said Ellwood. Kennedy developed his passion for the underprivileged during his first few years in office, and the young senator relied on a group of Harvard professors to help educate him about issues such as civil rights and health care.His civil rights...
...coincide with a brief hiccup that served as nothing more than a semicolon in a decade-long, run-on sentence of previously unimaginable financial growth. As I was 10 years old, it would be a stretch to claim that I was aware of the market’s rise that summer (whatever interest I could afford to the news was gobbled up by the much more interesting Monica Lewinsky). But with hindsight, the boom of the 1990s seem perfectly captured by that record-shattering season...