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...torturing, carving up and roasting their rivals, are paying $4 million a month in bribes in Baja California alone, just as the cost of doing business. The $4 million reward for their capture is one of the highest the U.S. has ever offered--and something of a bad joke under the circumstances. There hasn't been a single nibble in four years. What good is the money if you're dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: La Nueva Frontera: A Whole New World | 4/4/2006 | See Source »

...terms of relationships, claiming that “It’s Complicated” seems funny at first, until you realize that it’s actually not a joke. Before you note the irony in the situation, take a moment to ask yourself: What came first: the label or your life...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | 4/4/2006 | See Source »

...compliment the dancer on her performance. One mother proffers a small donation, but then pulls her hand back in jest. "Oops, I better be careful," she says with a smile. "If the new anti-pornography law gets passed I could be arrested." The Balinese are still able to joke, but they worry that if the law goes through unamended, smiles will be few and far between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia's Skin Wars | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...works with flame, but Batali sometimes slips into an overconfident caricature, the boor at the center of the room. Later that night he will tell Lagasse about a poorly attended cooking demo he did at last year's housewares show for a distracted crowd. It had been a running joke this weekend that few people had come last year, but now Batali let loose: "I'm like, 'Do you know how much people in New York would pay to f______ stand where you're standing?'" Batali was giggling, and everyone doubled over as his voice lifted a couple of comedic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super Mario! | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

Jimmy Zhao ’08 says his parents used to joke that if he ever brought a white girl home, at least they could be glad she wasn’t African American.If Zhao, who is Chinese American, did bring an African-American girlfriend back to his New Jersey home, it wouldn’t only surprise his parents. It would be a statistical anomaly.According to U.S. Census Bureau data analyzed by a sociologist at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, C.N. Le, just 0.1 percent of Chinese-American men have African-American wives, compared to 5.1 percent who are married...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Color Line Cuts Through the Heart | 3/22/2006 | See Source »

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