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• Deconstructing the Presidential Candidates' Town Hall Debate
McCain acknowledged his own slip-up by adding humor, suggesting that Brokaw just wave at him when his time was up. Takeaway: Throw ad lib comments into your presentation--something you heard when meeting and greeting audience members, or a brief ...
• A house divided: Spouses split over candidates
All the couples, and Saltz, agree that a sense of humor, and a little perspective, may be the most potent weapons for warding off politically-motivated relationship meltdowns. “I have realized I am not going to change people’s minds,” Amy Doyle ...
• American Paul Krugman wins economics Nobel
Showing a sense of humor, Krugman’s New York Times blog had an entry early Monday that read “A funny thing happened to me this morning....” with a link to the Nobel announcement. Krugman graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Yale in 1974 and ...
• Report: Tina Fey book deal worth $5 million
The New York Post has reported that the deal was worth more than $5 million and that "her book is not being pitched as a memoir, but instead as nonfiction humor, more in the style of author, screenwriter and film director Nora Ephron." The publisher ...
• First Thoughts (506)
*** Obama expands his lead: Three weeks until Election Day, Obama now holds a more than 100-vote lead in NBC's latest electoral map . He's ahead of McCain 264-163, with 111 votes in the Toss-up column. Last week, Obama was up 264-174. Our changes: We ...