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...play-by-play announcer for Fox's baseball and football coverage, has narrated many of the biggest moments in sports. On June 15, the ubiquitous broadcaster kicked off a new phase in his career with the premiere of Joe Buck Live, a quarterly HBO show billed as part sports talk, part sketch comedy. Hours before his first live taping, Buck spoke to TIME about transitioning from the broadcast booth to the host's chair, the perks and pitfalls of the format and how he intended to coax Brett Favre into revealing his future plans...
This show is several years in the making. Can you talk a bit about its evolutionary process? [HBO] always seemed to be interested in hiring me at some point, but they never really had a spot. After I did a pilot for a late-night show a few years ago, we had a good talk, and they told me they'd call when a spot opened up. I was pretty sure I was getting the big old brush-off, but then out of nowhere [Bob Costas, host of HBO's Costas Now, moved to the MLB Network], and they called...
Sesame Street's genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept. The polls can tell a President what the American people want to hear, but after so many years of sandbox politics and childish games, there comes a time to grow up. Given the hard choices, does the President think we're ready to handle complexity and delay gratification? If not now, when? Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults. The question remains whether President Obama will govern as though he believes...
...think he agreed to talk to you? Was part of him proud, and wanted to boast? Absolutely. You can see in the earlier part of the book that he's a good kid, and he's a smart kid. He skips two grades, he's a straight-A student. That all gets subverted once he goes into the projects in Chicago. I think that 12-year-old kid is still in there wanting to come out, and I think it did with his counterfeit bills...
...freeze talk has historically been meaningless blather in Israel. The government "froze" the settlements in 2003 but has surreptitiously supported building through a network of agencies, so building approval increased at a rate of 40% between 2007 and 2008 alone, according to Yesh Din, an Israeli organization suing to stop outpost settlements. So much building has happened since the mid-1990s that the West Bank resembles a Jackson Pollock drip painting of Jewish and Arab lands, connected and disconnected by bypass roads and cement blocks. The old Green Line border, now morphing into a wall, has literally doubled in size...