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...look forward to hearing the findings of the Task Force, should they ever come to the surface,” Ramano wrote. “But one thing is for sure, PILOTs, whether they are better negotiated or not, will remain voluntary and will therefore, never be a reliable rescue when the city needs a bailout...
...sense,’” he says. Downey, who also wrote the well-received presidential debate sketches in 2000, says that acclaim for individual writers is a relatively new phenomenon. “Having the attention for writers is unusual, and it’s a nice thing,” he says. Colin K. Jost ’04, who has been on the writing staff since 2005 and authored such recent sketches as “Don Draper’s Guide to Picking Up Women” with fellow alumnus Erik J. Kenward...
...this involve L. Ron Hubbard in some way?” I won’t ruin the end for you. 2. Sarah Palin—In the style of true insignificance, she will not occupy the #1 spot on this list. In lieu of an introduction to this...thing...I invite you all to imagine the sounds of turkeys being decapitated. Words spring to mind—“grotesque,” “cacophonous,” “bizarre.” For Palin, they’re the sounds of home. Welcome...
...whole thing reminded me, believe it or not, of the NBC series 30 Rock. Granted, “articulate speechlessness” is about the last thing you would find in this, one of television’s talkiest programs, but what in the realm popular culture is better at innocently taking the mickey out of the Man? Take the “cat anus” sequence in last week’s episode: The archetypal boss Jack Donaghy, crazed with career disappointment, announces that his new professional goal is to make sure that Tina Fey?...
...said, he wouldn't mind getting a Cabinet post, an ambassadorship or even a high-paying corporate gig. Driving these fantasies was his statutory power to name a replacement for former Senator Barack Obama - a power that to Blagojevich seemed like money in the bank. "I've got this thing, and it's f______ golden," he told an aide a day after the November elections on a home phone that was tapped by the FBI. "I'm just not giving it up for f______ nothing...