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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...