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...meet David Letterman? I was performing at the Comic Strip in 1979, I think, and I came off stage, and the manager at the club said, You know, this guy named David Letterman just saw you. I was like, Wow! I was excited because he didn't even have his morning show yet, but we knew he was a great comic. But I got a call the next day from the talent coordinator of the Tonight Show who said, David Letterman said he saw you and that you might be a good candidate for the Tonight Show. I didn...
...market continues to stage an improbable rally which should have been affected by concerns about the spread of the Swine flu virus and the fact that several large American banks may need tremendous infusions of capital. GDP numbers issued by the government were also shockingly bad. The economy contracted 6.1% in the first quarter which was more than any of the estimates of sane analysts. This GDP drop followed a drop of 6.3% in the last quarter of 2008. Experts tried to calm the masses by saying that some of the fall-off was due to a dip in inventories...
...convened in Geneva. The conference was the sequel to the 2001 meeting held in Durban, South Africa, which originally aimed to eliminate racism and xenophobia. Eight years ago, the proceedings rapidly descended into a “hate fest” as Muslim-majority states hijacked the stage as an opportunity to berate Israel and the West. While Durban II was not the same sort of vitriolic, one-sided attack that many had expected, it was nonetheless far from constructive. As such, Durban II simply served as a blunt reminder of the United Nations’s hypocrisy, ineffectiveness...
...newly identified targets. Most play a role in two key systems in the brain. One is the same brain-wiring system - neural cell adhesion - implicated in the first paper. The second is a set of housekeeping proteins - the ubiquitin system - that whisk away old brain connections and set the stage for new ones...
...more sanctions. But, Parsi says, the Iranians may worry that if they enter talks that then collapse, either because Obama was setting a trap or because he couldn't hold his part of the bargain, that would lead to greater international consensus for sanctions and even set the stage for something worse...