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Harvard President Larry Summers, for jokes about his girth, mental prowess and decision-making ability when it comes to Harvard athletics. Luckily, the line “Summers was too busy eating and watching Fear Factor to vote ‘No’ on the 7-week rule” never made it into print...
...PANASONIC PT-40LC12 Despite its girth, this 40-in. HDTV-ready rear-projection system does not come with an integrated HDTV tuner. What's cool about it? A picture-in-picture feature that lets you view two shows (or a PC desktop and a TV show) side by side. www.panasonic.com...
...Sherman sequoia, the largest living thing, or the 2,200-year-old Sri Lankan bo tree that was reputedly grown from a cutting of the tree under which Buddha found enlightenment. Others are less well known: the Montezuma cypress in Tule, Mexico, 140 ft. high and 190 ft. in girth, which "wraps itself around you with its huge, bare brown arms"; the troll-like red tingle in a forest in Western Australia that resembles something out of Tolkien; and the Bavarian "dancing lime," whose pruned and propped-up bottom branches can support an orchestra. "The message is subtle," he says...
...victim wasn't generally among them. The premiere of The Anna Nicole Show, an Osbournes-style reality series in which a camera follows Smith through her everyday routine, snagged the E! channel its highest rating ever by offering viewers the chance to make sport of Smith's ample girth and apparently boozy reflections on such matters as sex ("I wanna have an orgy") and porn films (she says she'd like to shoot one with "seven girls, two guys and a dog"). Critics reacted as if the producers were clubbing baby seals. "A cruel joke of a reality series," read...
...stela is of daunting dimensions: nearly eight meters high and of equal girth. Each of its almost 1,800 Chinese characters is larger than a human hand. Despite its imposing size, this immense bone of contention is not easy to find. So I turn to a local resident for guidance. She directs me to the stela's resting place-an open, peak-roofed pavilion hidden behind a high wall only a few paces from her home. "The taiwangbei," she pronounces, with a flourish. "The stela of the great King." That's how the locals know it. Which King...