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...nerds' main form of exercise is masturbation, but they are every bit as competitive as the towel-snapping guys on the football team. The difference is that their aggression is verbal, not physical. Instead of wanting to score the winning touchdown, they want to top their friends in the display of ribald wit. They're joke jocks. And since they don't think girls are funny (their touchstone movie "classics" are Caddyshack and Porky's, not Earth Girls Are Easy and Clueless), and since the jokes they make often have a pretty deep misogynist streak, they play...
...base over the previous half-century that the effect was akin to that of an adrenaline shot on a man whose heart has stopped beating. India would enjoy higher and more sustainable growth rates if it reformed its institutions of governance. Unfortunately, India's universally corrupt political leaders display a singular aversion to undertaking reforms, particularly those of the electoral funding system and the antiquated bureaucracy. Sanjeev Sabhlok, Bulleen, Victoria...
...military band's quick and terse rendition of India's national anthem was greeted with a few hushed sighs and gentle nods, in keeping with the somber mood of the Independence Day festivities at the governor's mansion. There was little of the chest-thumping pride or fireworks on display for the few hundred guests - European consuls fiddling with ties in the muggy heat; old freedom fighters standing tall, their faces gaunt and expressionless. Sixty years after the waning British Empire hastily departed after jotting down some lines on a map turning one country into two, the Indian Subcontinent...
Will Olmert, or any future Prime Minister, be able to pull it off? A preview of this mammoth challenge was on display in Hebron, where 800 Jewish settlers live surrounded by 180,000 Palestinians in what Ha'aretz newspaper columnist Benny Ziffer has called "a kind of nature park of extremism." The Jewish settlers are protected at great cost to the nation by Israeli security forces. But after months of dithering and judicial pressure, Israel's government decided on Aug. 7 to remove two Jewish families squatting in Palestinian-owned buildings. At 6:20 a.m., riot police bashed in doors...
...Tuesday, as he spent four-plus hours shaking hands at the Iowa State Fair in 95-degree heat, the delicate dance Richardson faces was on full display. "You're pretty tall to be a Mexican," one Iowan told Richardson, dressed in jeans and cowboy boots. At the fair's traditional soapbox, a must-hit event for all presidential hopefuls, Richardson - predictably - was asked about his stance on illegal immigration. With rivulets of sweat making their way across his neck and chin, he launched into his four-point plan on how to solve the immigration problem, which includes punishing employers...