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...issue by making his own old jokes, cracking about his "children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, great-great grandchildren..." Yet it was McCain's former rival Mike Huckabee who provided the campaign's most squirm-inducing moment, in his own SNL appearance a couple of months earlier. After a tongue-in-cheek Weekend Update commentary, the punch line was that the candidate wouldn't leave the stage after the bit was over. This while Huckabee was still insisting, out in the real world, that he wouldn't leave the race because his candidacy wasn't over. So who are we to believe...
...surgery to remove a patch of skin including the blemish, roughly 5 cm (2 in.) wide. The diagnosis: Stage 2A melanoma, an invasive form of skin cancer that claims the lives of up to 34% of those diagnosed within 10 years. Doctors also made an incision down his left cheek to remove lymph nodes in his neck in case the cancer had spread; they found it had not. The surgery left a large scar, and for weeks McCain retreated from public view to recover...
...unique Argentinian milieu. When she extended her hand to greet her post-doctoral lab partner, he replied, “I’ll let you get away with that this time, but in the future you’ll have to do the kiss on the cheek.” She also says she was pleasantly surprised by the spontaneity and communal nature of Argentinian culture. On one occasion, a convenience store worker offered to share “mate,” the national drink of Argentina, with her. “People will share mate with...
...presumptuous to expect all Olympic athletes to follow in Carlos's footsteps, to whip out the Tibetan flag on the stand if they're lucky enough to get there. Or to model themselves after Joey Cheek, the U.S. speedskater who donated the $25,000 prize from his '06 gold medal to a project that aids Darfur refugees in Chad. (Cheek went on to co-found Team Darfur, a coalition of worldwide athletes committed to raising visibility for the situation in the Sudan. The group is quite light on big-name American summer Olympians...
...says. Wick notes that the strength of the writers made it easier to mentor them during the collaboration process. “I didn’t have to do that much because we have such talented writers,” she says. From tongue-in-cheek farce to more serious fare, “Sketches!!” promises to provide a unique blend of theater and writing at Harvard...