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...trading floor for lobbyists but also a center of think tanks and policy discussion. Years of bipartisan misgovernment have depressed the state of New York. Although New York City has rebounded from its early-'90s nadir, upstate is a shell of its former self. The local political talent pool has dried up. Albany is one of the most dysfunctional state capitals in the nation, having passed only three budgets on time in 23 years...
...mere presence of such world-class talent could potentially frighten internationally inexperienced players. But even though the U.S. squad has its share of professionals, with players in MLS (such as Freddy Adu and Jozy Altidore), in Italy (Gabriel Ferrari), and in the senior national team (Michael Bradley), it is Akpan whose four goals in pre-World Cup friendlies leads the team this year...
Comedy is not something either generation is getting much of on prime-time TV. Sitcoms have lost their 50-year grip on the upper reaches of the Nielsen ratings, falling victim to the cheaper, more popular talent contests and reality shows. Movies have stepped into that gap. There's a connection with TV, of course: nearly all of today's movie-comedy stars (Carell, Stiller, Ferrell) started on the small screen. The biggest hits also depend on two of the oldest, most productive Hollywood combustions: first between script and star, then between star and audience...
Like major league teams with their farm system, comedies offer a chance for young talent to move up. Vaughn provided comedy relief for nearly a decade before his breakthrough with Wilson in Wedding Crashers. Rogen was one of Carell's buddies in The 40 Year Old Virgin; in Knocked Up, he had his own posse, and one of that group, Jonah Hill, will star this fall in the Rogen-written Superbad with Michael Cera, who's the male lead in the just wrapped Juno. John C. Reilly, Ferrell's foil in Talladega Nights and the forthcoming Step Brothers, gets...
...down to the acne and the flash drive on his key chain. His laboratory is a workbench in the bedroom of his Baghdad home. He says his tools are primitive - soldering irons, old printed circuit boards, discarded TV remotes and other bits of electronic detritus. But he has a talent for fashioning instruments of death from such dreck, turning an old toy walkie-talkie into a trigger for an explosion 100 yards away or programming a washing-machine timer to set off an IED two hours later. Such capacity for destruction makes him invaluable to the disparate groups that make...