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  • Working the Late Show Shift

    PHOTO GALLERY: The Tonight Show with… President Obama? READ Why Obama’s Special Olympics joke was a wrong move by David Swerdlick.   READ Jimi Izrael’s take. INTERVIEW OF THE PRESIDENT BY JAY LENO, “TONIGHT SHOW” Burbank, California Q The 44th President of the United States, please welcome President Barack Obama. (Applause.) THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.)…

  • Friday's Headlines

    BB: Lehman Stress Balls Coughed Up By Barclays; Bloomberg Headline, Not Ours IHT: More Comes Out about Gaza killings; Israel Would Deny, But Knows How Much That Stinks in Reverse Fox: Iranian Leaders Reject Prez’s Gesture; Obama Says “Rahm, Fetch My Shinebox” SR: 50 Cent Replaces Forrest Whitaker in Film; Apparently, Every Black Actor Ever…

  • Obama Working the Late Show Shift

    JAY LENO The 44th President of the United States, please welcome President Barack Obama. (Applause.) PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you. (Applause.) MR. LENO. Good to see you. MR. OBAMA: It is good to see you and –- (applause.) Thank you. Let me just say, I think Kevin looks good in a suit. (Laughter.) MR. LENO. Thank…

  • Did You Do Your Women’s Bracket?

    The NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament starts Saturday, and I have a problem with that. The women’s tournament is easily the third-best collegiate sporting event, surpassed only by football and men’s hoops. While pundits love to debate the viability of the WNBA (and those who wish it would go away try to ignore that attendance was…

  • So You Think You Can Dance?

    Point me t’ward tomorrow We did what we had to do. Won’t forget, can’t regret What I did for love. —“What I Did For Love,” from A Chorus Line A dancer’s life is famously short, brutal and riddled with potential pitfalls: ripped Achilles tendons, torn hamstrings, stress fractures, cruel choreographers. There is drama and angst…

  • Obama: First Guest

    President Obama repped quite nicely on Jay Leno’s “Tonight Show” last night. He caught some flack for doing a TV show, but at least he’s not reading from the funny pages, like Franklin Roosevelt often did when he was on the radio. I understand the objections, though. There was room to crash and burn, but…

  • How I Survived the 1980s

    Earlier this week, one reader Calvin – a veteran of the U.S. Navy – told us how disappointing his job search was and how he didn’t want to work a low-paying job outside his ideal career path. He was bitter about how being marred by debt and not reaping the benefits a college degree is supposed to provide. …

  • Young Blacks and Broken Hearts

    The New England Journal of Medicine has an arresting study that finds blacks under the age of 50 are 20 times more likely to develop heart disease than whites.  Here’s the abstract, for geeks, and an AP digest for everybody else. I’ll repeat what the researchers stress here: the finding is based on a small…

  • Fire Geithner First

    “I don’t know karate—but I know cr-azy.” —James Brown The Washington Post’s Steven Pearlstein finally said the F-word. Fraud. While Congress and the Treasury mull over approaches to the financial crisis with exotic names like “cram down,” “claw back” and “disgorgement,” and tax AIG executives “1000 percent” on their $160 million in bonuses, Pearlstein posed…

  • Incredible Hulks

    Click here to read a slide-show essay about the architecture of Detroit.