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Smiley vs Bond: how different were John le Carré and Ian Fleming's creations, really? One looks like a movie star – the other a frog. But are James Bond and George Smiley more alike than we think? 14 December 2020 • 6:10pm Cut from the same cloth? Gary Oldman as Smiley and Sean Connery as Bond Credit: Film Stills/Bettmann Archive A spy and his master walk into a bar. “The name’s Bond, James Bond, and I’ll have a martini,” says the first. “What about you, George?” His plump, frog-like companion considers the choices, wiping his thick glasses with the end of his tie. “Just te...

John Donvan hosts an Intelligence Squared debate on the Electoral College. Five American presidents — two in the last 20 years — have assumed office without winning the popular vote. The nation is involve in another contentious presidential election, and some are calling for an end to the Electoral College. They argue that the college subverts the will of the American people by unfairly prioritizing rural and swing states over the nation’s majority. But others say the Electoral College, which the founders established in the Constitution, is necessary to ensure voters in less populous s...

>> kennedy: dana, and your book, and you had so many great pieces of advice, especially for women entering politics. what would you tell alexandria ocasio-cortez about this moment in her political history. >> dana: you don't have to be in such a hurry. marinate a little longer. she can pick up the phone, and any respectable academic or politician. she could pick up the phone. anybody will come and briefer. what a great period. she can win that race. she can sit back. he does need to be doing all these interviews. i think it would be instructive not to have a debate with her but to have a debat...

>> so that sounds like he intends to defend his own misconduct by discussing bill. is that a winning debate strategy or will it backfire? joining me now two stellar debate experts john donovan is the debate moderator for intelligence squared u.s. debates, todd graham, from southern illinois university. he's been recognized three times as the national debate coach of the year. john donovan, a preliminary question, this has to be confronted at the start of this debate tomorrow night, wouldn't you agree? they don't have opening statements, but if you were moderating, wouldn't you deal with it ini...

With o i'm going to cure everybody who's nauseous, and my sister talks to big foot who's her neighbor. "three's company" had two dumb girls. i buy stickers for folks in prison, i bring milk, not backyard meth, it's a prison party. >> not backyard meth. mama gets a what what. badlipreading.com. >> this is a perfect time to ask howard about his intelligence squared debate last night. that you participated in. that was freaky to look at michele bauchmann talking -- >> isn't that something? >> yeah, it is. tell us about it. >> actually it was a fun debate, intelligence squared is a speakers series...