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...been together 12 years now. Are you thinking of getting married? We're kind of die-hard holdouts. We have so many friends who got married right before the election, and it was a really fun time. We went to a zillion parties. But I [could] see the writing on the wall, and I had a feeling that Prop. 8 was going to pass. It was a really crushing blow to our friends to go from this kind of high of exhilaration to this stunning defeat. So Lori and I feel we're going to wait until there...
...Tell me about the beginning of your career. Was it really hard to get started as a female stand-up comedian? In those days, when I started stand-up in the late '70s, it felt so easy to get into stand-up because there were so few people doing it and so few women. I always saw it as a tremendous advantage, and I always tell women that if you're in the minority in whatever you do, there are advantages to that which I think are enormous. Especially in a performing way. It sets you apart. It was kind...
...Your mother was a shrink when you were growing up. What was that like? Well, Andrea, it's hard to picture my mom solving other people's problems when she's the root of most of mine. It's a challenge. In one way, I do feel that my mother did instill in me the old get-ye-to-a-shrinkery, the value of therapy and its good effect on your life. I think that's been great, but shrinks as parents is a little tough because they're not that adept at switching out the shrink hat with...
...that is suffering the most is manufacturing, which is dominated by private companies. In 2008 an estimated 300,000 small and medium-sized firms collapsed; from January to March this year, exports fell by 19.7%, putting more pressure on the survivors. "The crisis hits China's private sector really hard because China's private sector accounts for a larger share of China's manufactured exports," says Yasheng Huang, an MIT professor who wrote about the rising power of SOEs in his 2008 book [Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics]. "So essentially you have a private sector whose main source of customers...
...long as the global financial system is in disarray, China will be hard pressed to withdraw its support for SOEs and stem the private-sector decline. But if it wants to ensure that an economic recovery lasts, it may have to. "If you believe one of China's problems over the last 10 years is a large misallocation of capital ... the debate is that you're seeing a continued misallocation," says Pettis. Some argue this matters little amid the global recession "when the house is on fire," he says. The risk is that in China's push to extinguish...