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...haired, dark-eyed actor, and the only languages spoken are Aramaic and Latin. However, the film was shot in Italy rather than Israel—a modern-day Jesus riding atop a donkey trying to enter Jerusalem would be held up at a checkpoint and asked for his identity card. And that’s if he could climb over the wall surrounding the city first...
...Dartboard and his fellow budding economist arrogantly strode into the nearly-empty Adams House dining hall—only to encounter the horror that is Restricted Hours. Dartboard pleaded with the card-checker to grant Dartboard and Friend passage into the kitchen. “The dining hall is practically empty!” Dartboard whined. Dartboard was rebuffed...
...Hours rule says that each Adams resident is allowed to bring one guest to every meal. So when Dartboard and Friend’s friends agreed to accept Dartboard and Friend as guests, they should have been allowed to eat. Dartboard does not believe that University officials—card-checkers included—should abuse their authority by denying food to slightly obnoxious would-be diners...
...chart the changing fortunes of presidential candidates is to note their shifting relations with the press. Back in December, an easy-breezy Howard Dean whiled away hours with his press corps, playing (and routinely losing at) Oh Hell!, a card game he taught them. But by January, as his press contingent swelled to more than 50, his schedule grew tight, and the cards were packed away. Now, with his campaign flagging, Dean is once more cozying up to the media. He's dealing out the cards again and holding so many press conferences that reporters occasionally run out of questions...
...tens of millions of jobs, with more to go. On a more pragmatic level, the U.S. needs China's cooperation on everything from trying to halt North Korea's nuclear- weapons program to building support for Iraq policy in the United Nations. That suggests Washington should play the trade card only sparingly. For now, the two sides are getting along well politically. China emerged as a global trade power 10 years ago, when it knocked off Taiwan and South Korea as the biggest exporter of tennis shoes to the U.S. In 2002, it surpassed Japan and Mexico as America...