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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...certainly not a student of late night television. I don't really understand it, I just do my own show. I get up and just rant about whatever turned up that day. It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Late Night Host Craig Ferguson | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...Spanish album might make some of her faithful listeners hesitant, but overall the album proves to be a success. She mixes a wide variety of styles, from melancholic ballads to confident pop, and puts meaningful lyrics to them that will not disappoint. Even though most American fans may not understand her words, “Mi Plan” is still a successful comeback into the musical style with which she initially started her career...

Author: By Giaynel P. Cordero taveras, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nelly Furtado | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...those works—like Joyce’s “Ulysses” or Wallace’s “Infinite Jest”—that literary junkies force themselves to read and pray that they’ll one day understand. He has received a National Book Award (for that novel), a MacArthur “genius grant,” and is consistently on the rumored short list for the Nobel Prize in Literature.All of this perhaps explains why the critical response to “Inherent Vice,” released earlier...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pynchon's Noir "Inherently" Minor | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...said. "It needs your ingenuity, it needs your wisdom, it needs the skills of your communities to help protect the way of life that all of us hold dear." Faced with multiple challenges in the Middle East, Panetta said, the agency desperately needs people who speak Arabic and understand the culture. Besides, they would help bring much needed diversity to the CIA. "We have to reflect the face of this nation," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The CIA Comes Calling for Arab-American Help | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...Everyone should understand that it is just the beginning," said Senate majority leader Harry Reid. "There'll be some changes before the markup starts, and then there'll be some changes during the markup." (See 10 players in health-care reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Things Dems Don't Like About the Baucus Bill | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

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