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It’s advice and I know you want it. In your first 100 days as President, you want to make a good impression. You want to show those stuffy professors that your brain is as big as your considerable girth and that a new sheriff is in town. You want to show the undergraduates you truly care about making everybody happy...
...Annals of Statesmanship "Mr. President, Please Don Your Turban . . ." Nothing can console the unfortunate masses of gujarat for their dreadful loss in January's devastating earthquake. But in their darkest hour, there appeared a man whose ferocious appetites and celebrated girth are themselves affirmations of the force of life. Ex-President Bill Clinton came to extend his lower lip in sympathy and sample a cuisine that during his presidency took a back seat to McDonald's and chicken fried steaks. (Although murgh malai, we understand, is Bill's second favorite kind of chicken.) For Gujaratis and Clinton alike...
...GIRTH OF A NATION Just look around: Americans are getting fatter. And now a government report confirms not only that more than half of us are overweight but also that the number who are obese--at least 30% heavier than the ideal weight--has skyrocketed from 12% of the population in 1991 to 18% today. Who is likeliest to put on pounds? Surprisingly, 18- to 29-year-olds and folks in the South, where the hot climate easily wilts enthusiasm for exercise...
...Upon arrival, various Middle East employees directed me, apprehensively, out back to the white van in which Willis sat by himself, his girth filling much of the passenger's side. He took off his headphones and chastised an imagined "motherf----er" in the back of the van before punching himself in the head and immediately apologizing to me for doing so. A brief conversation ensued. He sold me a CD, "Dr. Wax." Willis then grabbed the back of my head and instructed me to say "Rah!," which I did, and then he head-butted me right on the enormous callus...
...Girth aside, lest you think I am some inhumane, round-up-the-homeless-and-put-'em-in-a-hole reactionary, let me point out that I am not at all averse to giving spare change to the homeless. Although there are times I wish they wouldn't resort to such maddening gestures like opening the door for me and expecting a "reward" for their efforts--as if my two arms had suddenly become nonfunctional and I would otherwise be unable to enter 7-Eleven to buy a box of Pop Tarts--the truth is that some people are just plain...