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October 27, 2008

Time magazine's Washington correspondent Michael Scherer describes some of the things that could go wrong on Election Day. Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, star of The New Adventures of Old Christine, describes her childhood travels and what it was like to live in Sri Lanka, Colombia and Tunisia with her family.


Michael Scherer

Michael Scherer

Michael Scherer

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Time magazine correspondent gives advice to voters who might encounter problems exercising their right to vote in the upcoming general election. (1:30)
 
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Full interview. (11:25)
 
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Michael Scherer is covering the '08 presidential campaign as a correspondent in Time magazine's Washington bureau. He was previously Washington correspondent for Mother Jones and the online magazine Salon.com, assistant editor at the Columbia Journalism Review and an education reporter for the Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA). He's been published in numerous publications, including Rolling Stone. Scherer received his masters degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.


 

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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Actress tells the story of when she knew she had a gift for comedy. (1:48)
 
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Full intervew. (11:18)
 
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus' comic talents have made her popular with television audiences. Following her Emmy-winning breakout performance on the lauded sitcom Seinfeld, she nabbed her second career statuette as star of CBS' The New Adventures of Old Christine. She was a regular on Saturday Night Live for three years and had a recurring guest role on Arrested Development. Louis-Dreyfus studied theater at Northwestern University and performed improv with Chicago's Second City and the Practical Theatre Company.