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...time. I had a lot of big ideas for a novel. I knew I wanted to write eventually, and I knew that at 27 it was too late to learn to write in another language. This consideration decided my fate. Like the old Hungarian joke, instead of going abroad, I decided to do something more adventurous: I stayed at home...
...thirds of those flights happened on Thursday, Friday or Saturday, which suggest they had become a taxi service for lawmakers on the way home to their districts at the end of the week. What made the whole setup especially beautiful was the fact that disclosure requirements were a joke. Lawmakers had to file the dates they flew and amounts they paid for the travel, but not where they went...
...polyester version of the microbe that causes it. Greatly enlarged, of course, and with beady eyes. What you might call a teddygerm. A company in Delaware sells the little fellas - not only athlete's foot but also flu, earache, bad breath, ulcer, black death, flesh-eating and so on. Joke gift, yes, but in this season of peace, love and human disastrousness, bacteria have been all over the news...
...avoid being the butt of another such friendly joke, Russia has to be cagey about Pyongyang's constant requests for support in return for promises of good behavior that never get delivered...
JOHN KERRY doesn't want you to get stuck in Iraq. I mean, get us stuck in Iraq! The vet botched his anti-Bush punch line, making it sound antimilitary. Kids, if you can't tell a joke right, especially during elections, don't tell...