Word: inferior
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...national anthem at a sports game; on the show it was a baseball game, here it’s a rodeo, and he actually sings a made-up Kazakh anthem to the tune of ours (one highlight: “Kazakhstan number one producer of potassium, other nations have inferior potassium”). These jokes are all still funny, but a satirist of Cohen’s skill could certainly have devised new tricks to play on Americans this time...
That's Baron Cohen's awesome trick: preying on the fear, fascination and, most of all, patronization of the other--the foreigner, the rapper, the gay guy. For the trick to work, we have to believe that other countries are so inferior, it's plausible that their citizens would wash their faces in the toilet. He's been exploiting this by videotaping the reaction of unsuspecting people to his characters' horrifying behavior since 1998, when he started on England's short-lived The 11 o'Clock Show, and later on HBO's Da Ali G Show. His characters--aspiring rapper...
...common objection is that student choice will digress into a mindless pursuit of an easy A. This claim is ill-founded. Students already seek out easy core classes, and lower workloads do not necessarily translate into inferior classes. An extra chapter of reading or a problem set per week doesn’t mean that the course will affect the way the student views the world in a greater...
...zero. Across the Bangladeshi delta, oral rehydration was also gaining ground at the Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Research and Training in Calcutta. Teams at both centers knew they had an effective treatment - but they faced resistance from a profession that dismissed such a basic remedy as inferior to costlier IV saline fluids. The opportunity to prove oral rehydration's worth came in the form of a disaster. When Bangladesh's war for independence from Pakistan broke out in 1971, 9 million refugees poured into India, bringing cholera with them. Dilip Mahalanabis, an Indian doctor who had participated...
They’ve got an inferior football team and a lower U.S. News ranking, but Yalies are beating their Cantab counterparts in at least one category: endowment returns. In the 12-month period ending June 30, the New Haven safety school’s endowment-return rate topped Harvard’s by 6.2 percentage points—the second straight year that the Elis’ investors have bested the Crimson’s team...