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...Cleese is the elder statesman of the group, Gilliam the member who carved the most distinctive post-Python career, and Chapman the figure of poignancy - the homosexual alcoholic who was dead at 48. His demise touched all the survivors, but it didn't stanch their biting wit. In fact, now that he's dead, they make fun of Graham a lot. On the BBC2 show 30 Years of Monty Python, Cleese intones: "And I'd just like to say for the whole gang, except for the dead one of course, how pleased we are..." And in a 1998 reunion...
...deadlier than New York City or Los Angeles, but it would also have been so much more violent that it really belonged in another country altogether. By the time Katrina hit, most law-enforcement types in the city had come to an unpleasant conclusion: no amount of arrests would stanch the murder rate. Somewhere along the way, despite the best efforts of techno-cop Chief Richard Pennington in the 1990s, despite tens of thousands of arrests for drug and quality-of-life crimes, violence had become normalized...
...face a demographics-driven crisis: What happens when the 76 million baby boomers retire? As older workers begin to leave work in droves, economists project a labor shortage of 10 million by the end of the decade. Some industries, such as utilities, education and energy, are already struggling to stanch the institutional brain drain. So, older workers want to keep working, and employers need them--crisis solved. Right? Not quite, says Deborah Russell, director of workforce issues at the AARP. Revamping retirement systems requires shifts in attitudes and bureaucratic pension rules. "It comes down to the perception that...
...World News Tonight on Jan. 3. Vargas, 43, cohost of the network's 20/20, will become the first nightly-news anchor of Hispanic descent. Woodruff, 44, anchor of ABC's weekend news, will hold up the venerable white-guy-with-good-hair tradition. The pair will attempt to stanch the migration of network-news viewers to cable and the Internet and reclaim some of the eyeballs lost to NBC's Brian Williams since Jennings left in April. If that doesn't work, there's always a panda somewhere giving birth...
...that we wouldn't leave parties without first chewing several pieces of gum to conceal the alcohol on our breath, in case we encountered a checkpoint run by Islamic paramilitaries. When the rhetoric cooled, the system turned its sights back to its angry young people and essentially decided to stanch their discontent by buying them off. While continuing to brutally suppress all political dissent, the mullahs boosted subsidies on gas and household commodities. But most significant, they began loosening control over the lifestyle choices of the 48 million Iranians under the age of 30, who make up more than...