Word: humority
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...fact, Hilton is slated to receive an award on Feb. 6 from The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
...reason for the erroneous reports was that The Harvard Lampoon—a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—had decided to give its own, first-ever award to Hilton...
According to Lampoon officials, the humor magazine plans to honor Hilton—who has gained notoriety through her starring roles in both the reality show "The Simple Life" and an amateur sex video, "1 Night in Paris," that she taped with a former boyfriend—outside the Lampoon castle on Feb. 6, a day before the Theatricals will celebrate its awardees...
Huckabee's greatest pop-culture weapon, though, may be the late-night shows. His humor is easy, wry and self-deprecating, but it's also strategic. Some Huckabee positions?on abortion, the so-called FairTax, immigration, aligning the Constitution with "God's standards"?would alienate some voters. But his joking reinforces his cultivated image as the conservative who's "not mad at anybody." And his dry irony?the lingua franca of pop culture?allows him to sandwich actual answers on awkward issues with his jokes. If he's lucky, viewers won't notice, or mind, the difference...
...rather than dive quickly into promising markets, eHarmony has remained devoted--some would say slavishly--to its research-based model. In China, that means commissioning researchers at Beijing University to find out whether its model--in which 29 "dimensions" such as humor and spirituality are mined for compatibility--applies to the culture. Kaiping Peng, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, who is assisting eHarmony, is unsure. "What is the best match might not be about matching exactly," he says. "Maybe it's complementary--like the yin and the yang." Americans are drawn to eHarmony's deeply...