From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Ted Koppel:   
   	- He offers to catch from the underwear lady.  Not from the guy.   
    Conan's never seen a man cry in the audience.   
   	   
   	- He and his wife celebrated their 40th anniversary.  There's   
   discussions of ``how much do you love me?''  He skated by on wide arms   
   spread, but this time he wrote a song, and asked Bruce Springsteen and   
   the E Street Band to record it.  It was a little ditty called Born To   
   Run.  Well, Bruce screwed it up but ...   
   	   
   	- She gets asked a lot about their relationship and she finally   
   started to say she married him for the sex.   
   	   
   	- Breaking Point: shot in a California prison.  Prisons were   
   built to house no more than 100,000 people and they host 170,000; the   
   frighteningly enormous number of people in prison isn't working.  And   
   Koppel went into the prisons himself.  Was he scared?   
   	   
   	- Nah, these are guys who really feel they need to talk and the   
   last person who'll get hurt is a reporter giving them their big chance.   
      
   	   
   	- How do they react to a TV celebrity?  There was one nice young   
   inmate who asked what it's like being a celebrity, it must be great, you   
   have so much money you could buy all the weed you can handle.  How can   
   you answer?  The guy figured it must be great, you got, what, two or   
   three ladies in back of your stretch limo?  The producer pointed out   
   Koppel's fidelity for 44 years, and the kid asked, ``Why would you do   
   that?''   
   	   
   	- What's one thing he would change or fix about the penal system   
   if he could?  First, people who commit nonviolent crimes as a result of   
   drug addiction are better served getting off drugs.  Second, instead of   
   building more prisons and overcrowding prisons, give them vocational   
   training, anger management training, drug-and-alcohol programs.  We're   
   keeping people in conditions so bad all they learn is how to be a better   
   criminal.  And in California you're obliged to return to the community   
   where you committed the crime, making things all the more cyclical.   
   	   
   	- California spends $43,000 a year on prisoners; Harvard Driving   
   School is $43,300 a year, room-board-tuition.  And if some of those   
   people would go to Harvard it would raise the whole (tenor the place?  I   
   couldn't make it out)   
      
      
      
   'Tastic Guy:   
   	- Tina Fey, she's fantastic.   
   	   
   	- Kenneth Brannaugh, he's Sleuth-tastic.   
   	   
   	- Anni DiFranco, she's DiFraca-tastic.   
   	   
   	- He'd rather read 'Root Canal by Dr Theodore Peterson' than   
   watch the comedy stuff.   
   	   
   	- Conan's stuff is all stink-tastic.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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