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...travel is technology's greatest gift to the comedian. Those little bags of peanuts they give you--what's the deal with them? Hey, just last week I took a trip to L.A.--and my luggage took a trip to Hong Kong! Ba-boom-boom...
...lover Octavian. The opera begins when the Marschallin’s country cousin, the Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau, visits her to discuss his engagement plans. She suggests that he offer a chambermaid (actually Octavian in disguise) to his future fiancée, Sophie von Faninal, as an engagement gift in addition to a special silver rose. Unexpectedly, Ochs becomes infatuated with the disguised Octavian; from there, the plot takes many twists, involving more disguises and deception, a pair of Italian spies, and the police. With an orchestra of 110, cast of 35 and technical staff...
...After receiving his induction, Clinton thanked the marchers for their "gift given to us." Without it, Clinton said, he would never see "a rainbow coalition running for president, including one junior Senator from New York." After a day of preachers and preaching, he quoted his grandmother's dream for him to be a preacher, "if I'd been a better boy," the former president joked...
...upon me. My mom’s best friend is a gay man whom I see as a public health professional, an uncle, and a dozen other things before I see him as a “fag.” I could never thank him enough for one gift: giving me the tip-off, when I was about 12, that “gay” was not a synonym for “bad,” which is something that many 21-year-olds can’t seem to master...
...Stavins attended the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), which once owned its own cellar. After the school was founded, it received a gift of a collection of “first growth” bordeaux—including some of the world’s most famous wines, like the famous Chateau Latour and Lafite-Rothschild, said Dillon Professor of Government Graham T. Allison ’62, then dean of KSG. According to the story, a Harvard alum was looking to get rid of his cellar...