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...reading period progresses and each of us experience our own quarter-life crises, we would do well to put things into perspective. Who knew that musical theater could be the perfect therapy? With sweetness and humor, the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s “Nine,” which ran this weekend at the New College Theatre, took a director’s creative blockage—something many of us can relate to—and turned it into a laugh-out-loud tale of temptation, confusion, love, and show business. Inspired by Federico Fellini?...
...zoological humor - no one is firing porcupines. But the 109-year-old Bronx Zoo and other zoos and aquariums around the country are facing serious budget cuts as the state and city governments that supply much of their operating costs respond to the recession. In New York State, Governor David Paterson has called for cutting $5 million in funding from the Zoo, Botanical Garden and Aquarium Program budget - dropping total state funding for 75 wildlife and nature centers in the state from $9 million to $4 million in 2009 - and eliminating it altogether in 2010. In North Carolina, state officials...
...Though he's capable of mirth, Cook's default facial expression is a frown, and his humor is of the dry variety. In meetings he's known for long, uncomfortable pauses, when all you hear is the sound of his tearing the wrapper of the energy bars he constantly eats." -Fortune...
...Economics Humor Session is the AEA conference's first attempt to inject a little levity into an annual confab that noneconomists might charitably describe as dry. "You can count on one hand all the funny economists in the world," says R. Preston McAfee, a California Institute of Technology economics professor and Yahoo! research fellow who presided over the evening. But despite their rarity, some of these academics have attracted wide followings--admittedly, among those who can laugh at supply-demand curves. Yoram Bauman, a professor at the University of Washington, bills himself as the World's First and Only Stand...
...Trebek asked Schleicher, who is co-president of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, about the organization during the contestant interview segment of the show...