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...shouldn’t hone her material. Indeed, during the last Clinton humor blitz, a former colleague recounted the following anecdote as evidence of Hillary’s sense of humor: once, when a coworker removed a slice of pizza from her desk, Hillary sent out a memo asking who took the evidence she was saving for a poisoning trial. Speaking not as a woman but as a human being, let me ask: Do we want a president who thinks that this is a good joke? Maybe Rosie should run. Alexandra A. Petri ’10 is a joint...
...first 1.83 meter clearance came last year at home against Yale in the outdoor season. But the indoor season is decidedly different from outdoor competition, making this weekend’s achievement all the more impressive. “I’m sure if you were to ask Becky, she’d say she’s a better outdoor jumper than indoor jumper,” Saretsky said. “So it’s good for her to be at her best going into the outdoor season.” With her success at Arkansas...
...sufficient for the 20-min. routine of calisthenics I developed years ago. The human animal evolved over an unimaginably large expanse of time, during which physical exertion was necessary for survival. Simulating the evolutionary norm with only 20 min. of workout per day is a stupendous bargain, if you ask me. Maxwell P. Iverson, Macomb, Illinois
...Telpuk, it was simply a case of doing her job. "I still don't understand what Antonini Wilson expected to happen when he opened that suitcase," she says. "Maybe he thought I would ask for a bribe and that would be the end of it." That may have been a fair assumption, on his part, given the notorious corruption among Argentine customs agents. But among her fellow agents, Telpuk had a reputation for naive honesty. "Once a passenger dropped a huge wad of dollar bills on my counter and didn't notice, I chased after him down the runway waving...
...Priddy, energy analyst for the Eurasia Group in Washington. "It would be a real loss of face if all of a sudden they would reverse course unilaterally," he says. Cheney's visit to Riyadh might be too late, says Priddy, adding about U.S. officials: "If they were going to ask [for increased oil production] they should have asked a month...