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...more mediocre male comedians than mediocre female comedians. If you can make it against the assumption that women aren’t funny because of evolution, or excess compassion, or whatever, then a lot of people must think you are really funny. Notably, the female comedians who have broken out into the mainstream are the ones who talk about other things than the fact that they are women. This is something Hillary needs to learn. Being a woman can be a hassle, but it’s no excuse. Just because “women aren’t funny?...
...problem is, it's also considered the building block of broken lives in the rest of the world, where cocaine consumption and addiction remain rampant in developed regions like North America and Europe. The U.S. has spent more than $5 billion this decade aiding Colombia's largely failed efforts to eradicate coca cultivation. Meanwhile, Washington and the U.N. have tried to get Bolivia and Peru to reduce their coca crops to the bare minimum for traditional consumption. Peru and Bolivia are the region's second and third largest coca producers, behind Colombia, with about more than 75,000 hectares...
...Those ideas resonate in Nepal, home to another sizeable Tibetan population, where Tibetans have demonstrated daily for the past week. The protests have been broken up by Nepal's police, often violently, but that doesn't bother Tenzing Wangdu, 32, who was the president of the Nepali chapter of the Tibetan Youth Congress until a few months ago, and proudly shows off welts on his upper arm and back where the police clubbed him during yesterday's protest. "Having marks on your body makes you feel like you are among our brothers in Tibet who are giving up their lives...
Sculptor Ruben Ochoa, based in Los Angeles, operates in the great modernist tradition of junk assemblage that goes back to Picasso. Ochoa builds his work out of suitably despised things: broken concrete, rebar, chain-link fencing--the rubbishy stuff of construction sites. But he combines those elements to create ceiling-height formations that have a brutal grandeur. An Ideal Disjuncture, 2008, brings to mind the swells of Baroque form, but with materials so scrappy, they couldn't fall into the suave clichs of Baroque art if they tried...
...Warne] has broken down one-on-one D to every single step,” tri-captain Nick LaFiura admired. “The system is complicated, but once you get it down it makes sense...