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...names Ryan, who played for the Texas Rangers when Bush was the team's co-owner. The toughest challenge the Governor has faced? Firing manager Bobby Valentine. What mistake does he most regret? Trading hitting superstar Sammy Sosa to the Cubs, he said during the primaries, only half in jest. He cites his Rangers experience because it is when his professional career first flowered. "His relationship with the game gives you a big window into what he is all about," says Tom Scheiffer, the Rangers' current managing partner...
...persistently falling crime rates have baffled the nation's policy wonks. The head-scratching can stop, because it's all been explained by a revelation Thursday from the Justice Department: There's no one left to commit crimes - everyone has been stuffed into prison. In part, of course, we jest; the figures, though, are serious. According to the DOJ's calculations, the U.S. adult prison population reached record levels in 1999; jails housed 1.86 million people last year, or one of every 147 citizens. That makes America, which in 1985 had less than 800,000 people behind bars, the most...
...Fine mess you've gotten me into, Weaver," snapped McCain in jest to the 40-year-old political director who first went to McCain in February 1997 to persuade him to run. As word of McCain's rout spread, family members drifted into his suite; children ran between the sofas and chairs, grazing the tables, spilling their Shirley Temples. McCain's daughter Sidney spun youngest son Jimmy as if they were doing the lindy hop. When the networks finally called the race, Cindy's hands flew to her mouth, and her eyes filled; the aides let out a cheer. McCain...
...maintain that a large part of the population is condemned to failure from the outset would require a ruthlessness that Americans cannot muster except in jest (which might be why American comedy is largely about outrageous losers, like Kramer, Dilbert and Homer Simpson...
David B. Orr '01, a member of the council and the BGLTSA, said students should be outspoken when they hear someone jest about homosexuality...