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...then they fall off the roof. (Laughs) I feel like the comedy that I've always tried to do my whole life and that I really dig is comedy that's edgy, that's very moving and powerful and still hilarious. I don't feel like you have to sell one out for the other. I don't think they have to be mutually exclusive...
...there is some hope that Obama and Bush can agree on a car czar). By March 31 of next year, Detroit will have to lay out a schedule for how and when they will repay the funds as well as plans for their long-term viability; they must also sell their corporate planes (in a terrible public relations fiasco the Big Three CEOs came to Washington on their jets to beg for public funds) and agree to tight executive compensation restrictions. In the interest of passing a bill quickly, Congress dropped many proposed provisions, such as allowing the car czar...
...This sentiment was echoed by Hinckley, who said she is both excited and nervous about participating in the program.“People have expressed a mixture of gratitude and admiration that I am pursuing this,” she said. “My parents were a harder sell, but they’ve come to terms with it. They’re just happy that I have something for two years in this kind of economy. They just want me to be happy and stable...
...Earlier this year, the UAW struck a key GM parts supplier, American Axle Holding Inc. in Detroit, for 83 days, when union leaders sensed they could not sell the proposed pay and benefit concessions to union members. The strike wound up costing GM, American Axle's key customer, more than $2 billion, according to the company's financial reports. The contract finally approved, though marginally better than the company's first proposal, still included wage cuts...
...Perhaps Generation A will have to grow up soon and face the awkward music. But why rush things? We’re still in college. We’ll have plenty of time to talk face to face when the economy crumbles, obliging us to sell our cell phones, dress in drab burlap ensembles, and stand in long lines waiting for soup. There’s a reason we consider sincere intellectual engagement awkward. The longer we can postpone that, the more time we can spend making lists of verboten terms like “moist...