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...look like their dogs, sometimes spokesmen begin to resemble their candidates. That's certainly true of Kevin Madden, Mitt Romney's national press secretary, though his neat, Romneyesque looks are quickly belied by a thick New York accent. Shifting seamlessly between sound bites and genial (if sometimes vulgar) humor, Madden, 35, has kept the campaign from getting too rattled by Romney's occasional malapropisms and gaffes. The effortlessness with which he laughs off Romney's missteps (when Romney told Fox News that his favorite novel was a sci-fi tome by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, Madden chided breathless reporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Briefing: Campaign Insider | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...lighter moments. Sorensen said with a smile that “young men thanked me for making Kennedy’s speech so dramatic because it helped them convince their girlfriends that it was the last night on earth.” Sorensen’s dry humor was also directed at the present. He said Kennedy was willing to show American missile surveillance images to French President Charles de Gaulle, and contrasted this with the current president’s treatment of similar evidence of a threat in the run-up to the Iraq war. In an interview after...

Author: By Daniel E. Lage, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: J.F.K. Adviser Speaks | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...there are low-power strategies too, and one of the most effective ones is humor. It's awfully hard to resist the charms of someone who can make you laugh, and families abound with stories of last-borns who are the clowns of the brood, able to get their way simply by being funny or outrageous. Birth-order scholars often observe that some of history's great satirists-Voltaire, Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain-were among the youngest members of large families, a pattern that continues today. Faux bloviator Stephen Colbert-who yields to no one in his ability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of Birth Order | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

...former writers for “The Simpsons,” that was last Saturday’s agenda. The Simpsons “festival” was hosted by the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. According to Lampoon President Ross E. Arbes ’08 and Treasurer Hayes H. Davenport ’08 (who, curiously, asked that all quotations be attributed to both of them), “The Lampoon has had a long-standing tradition and relationship with the Simpsons. In fact...

Author: By Emma R. Coleman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Dysfunctional Family | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

...After Hours Urgent Care at UHS. “You have to treat everyone at the same time,” Johnson added. Amid the inconvenience of waiting for washing cycles to finish and the hassle of shouldering laundry up and down the street, some Pennypacker residents found humor in the situation. “I just emailed the [WHRB] comp director telling him I might not be able to make it Sunday because I’m getting disinfected for scabies,” said Zhang. Pennypacker resident Idriss P. Fofana ’11 said...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scabies Outbreak Hits Pennypacker | 10/15/2007 | See Source »

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