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...comedian so I have high hopes…TY: Uh oh…Comedians are notoriously funny off stage. RR: And you do mostly stand up? TY: Yeah that is my job I guess. It’s a good job. RR: Comedians are notoriously dark, sick and depraved people. Are you? TY: I’ll should take the fifth on that one, Jesus Christ. The comedian life lends itself to depravity, but I don’t. RR: Larry David once said that if he had ever been successful with women, he wouldn’t have been...
...would make you look smarter,” he added. “Students sometimes use words a few sizes too large for their purposes,” said Harvard Bernbaum Professor of Literature Professor Daniel Albright. “In general, if you say caliginous when you mean dark, you are off the beaten track.” Complex words in student writing sometimes seem out of place, said Lydia A. Fillingham, a preceptor of the Harvard Expository Writing Program. “One thing people do a lot of is use the noun form instead of a verb...
...socks and sandals seemed to go well with her DHA tux this morning when she rolled out of her rugyby player boyfriend’s bed. With a tall dark Dunkin’s in hand, she’s off to her 10 a.m. health policy class. Tonight, she’ll probably return to her table next to the window to skim her orgo readings. Her book bag contains chapstick, books from Lamont, extra squash balls, and the Premedical Handbook (aka, the Bible). She occasionally splurges on a donut, but calls...
When I asked Obama about this, he began to answer before I finished the question. "There's a core decency to the American people that doesn't get enough attention," he said, sitting in his downtown Chicago office, casually dressed in jeans and a dark blue shirt. "Figures like Oprah, Tiger, Michael Jordan give people a shortcut to express their better instincts. You can be cynical about this. You can say, It's easy to love Oprah. It's harder to embrace the idea of putting more resources into opportunities for young black men--some of whom aren...
...campaign rallies, supporters shout "Dale Correa," a play on Correa's last name that means "Give them the belt!" On the stump in the rural highlands town of Latacunga last week, the dark-skinned but blue-eyed Correa spoke in the indigenous Quichua language: "The political and economic elites have robbed everything from us, but they cannot steal our hope. We will take back our oil, our country, our future!" And like Chavez, Correa wields his tongue like a belt at the U.S. Asked about Chavez's recent "devil" diatribe at the United Nations, Correa told an Ecuadoran TV network...