Word: foole
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...rain and snow come down hard on the windshield and the classical music begins a crescendo, the old Catholic missionary looks suddenly weary. He is still recovering from a recent triple-bypass heart operation, and he's been told the prognosis is not good. "People think I'm a fool," he says, "but I love these guys--all of them. I know that many of them have done some really bad things, even killed people. But no matter what, I won't turn my back on them...
...will not be pleasantly surprised. To protect himself and the process, he'll be grilled, chased and pretty much treated like another Joseph, in Kafka's The Trial (original German title: Der Prozess). But don't let the pedigree fool you. The Spanish Prisoner is exemplary entertainment. Come expecting a dour jeremiad on man's corruptibility--or even a slice-of-lice drama like Mamet's American Buffalo or Glengarry Glen Ross--and you'll be pleasantly surprised. The villains in The Spanish Prisoner (like the war-games con men in Mamet's Wag the Dog script) dress well, speak...
...first, we laughed, thinking it a clever April Fool's joke. After all, the life of a graduate student sounds downright exciting after reading the statement from the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students: "Without [graduate students], tuition would be higher, research wouldn't be as successful, our society wouldn't solve as many problems, and our lives wouldn't be as rich...
Okay, so maybe it was our respective nicotine and running-shoe habits, coupled with some massive thesis-incurred library fines, that forced us to be money conscious...but we couldn't resist mentioning the Senior Gift on April Fool...
Lebanon and Syria today treated Israel?s offer to withdraw from southern Lebanon as something akin to an April Fool?s joke, indicating they weren?t interested in even discussing the matter with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. After all, tacked on to the headline-grabbing announcement that Israel accepted a 20-year-old U.N. resolution ordering its withdrawal from Lebanon, is the rider that Netanyahu would only redeploy his forces once Israel?s security had been guaranteed by Lebanon and Syria. Since the U.N. resolution calls for unconditional and unilateral Israeli withdrawal, today?s announcement looks like little more than...