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So You Want to Be a Comedian
It started on my 14th birthday in 1961, when my parents gave me a copy of "Inside Shelley Berman," an album by the young comic (now an...
Newsweek, 02/19/07 by Walter Shapiro · More from publication -
On Condition of Anonymity
"Whenever anonymity is granted, it should be the subject of energetic negotiation to arrive at phrasing that will tell the reader as much as...
Atlantic, The, 09/01/05 by Walter Shapiro · More from publication -
What's the Matter With Central Park West?
"Thomas Frank, a left-wing journalist and author of the bestseller What's the Matter With Kansas?, ⦠argues that conservatives have been...
Atlantic, The, 03/01/05 by Walter Shapiro · More from publication -
Ideas, not agendas, drove column
After more than 800 columns over the past nine years, this is closing time as I ask the bartender for "one for my baby and one more for the road."...
USA TODAY, 12/08/04 by Walter Shapiro · More from publication -
Doses of reality not covered by new Medicare drug benefit
WASHINGTON -- Here is a clip-and-save fact that symbolizes America's long-term financial dilemma: According to government estimates, the ultimate...
USA TODAY, 12/03/04 by Walter Shapiro · More from publication -
From the rubble of Kabul's battlefields emerges a future for Afghan freshman
RICHMOND, Ind. -- On a reporting trip to Afghanistan in December 2001, six weeks after the Taliban was routed, I met Jawad Sepehri Joya at a Red...
USA TODAY, 12/01/04 by Walter Shapiro · More from publication -
Disney trial offers rich lessons in corporate governance
This weekend marks the transition between the gratitude of Thanksgiving and the greedy excess of Christmas shopping. What better time to muse on...
USA TODAY, 11/26/04 by Walter Shapiro · More from publication -
Rather's sign-off signals end of an era for network news
Imagine that a television network, stung by exaggerated claims of liberal bias, was searching for a news anchor whose background would reflect the...
USA TODAY, 11/24/04 by Walter Shapiro · More from publication -
Onstage, there's no trouble with unity
The torrents of rain that dampened the opening of Bill Clinton's presidential library provided an obvious metaphor for Democrats' post-election...
USA TODAY, 11/19/04 by Walter Shapiro · More from publication -
Now's a time for honesty, if we can remember what that is
Can we talk? That is, of course, the trademark line of comedian Joan Rivers. But it is also a question that Americans might ask one another...
USA TODAY, 11/12/04 by Walter Shapiro · More from publication
