Word: joint
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...noon until midnight, Thursday through Sunday.At 10 p.m., Newell begins his “Big Hemp Show.”“Would you like to sing your favorite marijuana song?” Newell asks, and then begins to sing: “Roll, roll, roll your joint. Twist it at the end…” His puppet is holding a large marijuana spliff, which glows when he brings it to his mouth.Two audience members decide that they want to sing along, and stand behind the additional three-foot-tall puppets. When they find the microphones...
...best examples of putting black gold to good use, to manage its oil money. But noble intentions are not enough. East Timor NGOs worry that their country's oil laws are so vague that they open the door to mismanagement and skimming. A damning World Bank-Indonesia joint study earlier this year showed Indonesia was struggling to spend state funds on decent development projects...
...party deal was a bright moment in what has turned out to be a fairly unsatisfying summit for Roh. The longtime foes were able to ink a deal promising to work toward a permanent peace agreement and boost economic ties between Seoul and Pyongyang. But the joint statement didn't really break any new ground. "We shouldn't be too impressed," says Kim Tae Woo, analyst at the Korea Institute of Defense Analysis. "The agreement does not create any dramatic changes to inter-Korean relations...
...surprisingly, the joint agreement also failed to make any mention of thorny issues such as the fate of both South Korean prisoners of war and abductees in North Korea. Perhaps Kim Jong Il will address those topics if he fulfills an earlier promise to visit the South's capital. But it's not likely...
...coffee shop, talking to a Korean girl I’d befriended. She was angry about that day’s lecture in Summer School (it was a joint program with a Korean university), because she thought our professor went too easy on the Japanese. “I dunno,” I said, “I thought he was pretty balanced...