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...What’s black and white and red all over?” I quipped, just waiting to deliver the punchline of my third-grade riddle...
...You’ve been unpopular for your notorious, seemingly single-handed fight against grade inflation. Is there something particularly manly about making this or any other singlehanded fight? Mansfield: There is nothing inherently manly about anything. Put some honor on it! That’s manly. Inflation? Not manly. Inflatable men, though? Manly...
...shows like Merv Griffin and Ed Sullivan, RICHARD PRYOR--who died last week of a heart attack at age 65--was a cute, rubber-faced young comic with a knack for physical comedy and a childlike sweetness; in one of his earliest bits, he impersonated a band of scared grade-schoolers performing Rumpelstiltskin. Within a few years, he had become America's most celebrated comic revolutionary. Frustrated with the safe material he was doing on TV and in nightclubs, he walked out on a gig in Vegas, moved to Berkeley, Calif., and began talking about the things that mattered...
...Bracing for war, but praying for peace/ Using his power so evil will cease." Excerpt from "THE LEADER," a poem deleted from a Pakistani 11th-grade English textbook after it was discovered that the first letters of each line spelled out "President George W. Bush...
...problem is that just as Japanese soldiers once dehumanized Chinese, Beijing's propaganda often paints Japanese as pure monsters. Grade school textbooks recount the callous brutality of Japanese soldiers in graphic detail, and credit the Communist Party with defeating Japan. (Another reason for Japan's surrender, it says, was the atomic bombs dropped by the U.S.) More moderate voices are silenced. A 2000 film by one of China's leading directors, Jiang Wen, remains banned because it depicted friendliness between a captured Japanese soldier and Chinese villagers. Although the film showed plenty of brutality, censors ruled that "Devils...