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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...called The Man from the Pru, about a group of twentysomething friends in 1970s England trying to escape from their poor, small town. It's what Gervais did, leaving Reading, England, to go to college and then play in a rock band, eventually getting a job at a radio station when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Renaissance Man: Ricky Gervais | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...oldest published quotes using the entire phrase appeared in The Washington Post in November 1985. Asked by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to put his station's $20,000 fundraiser earnings toward the renovation of Candlestick Park, KNBR personality Ron Lyons scoffed, "That would be like putting lipstick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History Of: 'Putting Lipstick on a Pig' | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...worked as an activist for prisoners with HIV and AIDS, and as a "yard boy." That's how she met Susan Mikula, an artist who has been her partner for the past eight years. On a dare, Maddow auditioned as an on-air personality for an Amherst radio station and got the job. She served as morning host on Northampton's WRSI for two years until the Air America start-up in March 2004. For a year she co-hosted the mid-morning Unfiltered, then filled the milkman's 5 to 6 a.m. slot, got promoted to a two-hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rachel Maddow: MSNBC's New Voice | 9/8/2008 | See Source »

...Firefighter Colonel Wanius Amorim remembers the Simpsons every time he catches a monkey in someone's front room, drags an alligator from a back porch or gingerly lifts a snake from the street. For the commander of a Rio fire station nestled in the middle of the world's biggest inner-city forest, saving wild animals is all in a day's work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Bart Simpson's Urban Jungle | 9/8/2008 | See Source »

...Similarly, Sarkozy's decision earlier this year to ban commercials from state television Channels, provoked an outcry, since the biggest expected beneficiary of the resulting advertising windfall will be private station TF1 - whose owner, Martin Bouygues, was best man at Sarkozy's wedding to former wife Cécilia. Opponents also claim Sarkozy has used his friendship with Bouygues - and one with another media mogul the president has called "my brother" - to direct the alleged nomination of sympathetic journalists into important editorial positions as a means of shaping friendly political coverage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarkozy vs. the Corsicans | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

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