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...long political career. To describe Le Pen as a “tactless and sometimes foolish old man” would strike the majority of French citizens—of all possible heritages, backgrounds, faiths, and political tendencies—as, at the very least, a very bad joke...

Author: By Virginie Greene and Alice A. Jardine | Title: France’s Riots Were Not Merely Due To Cultural Heterogeneity | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

ASTHMA A good joke can be as dangerous as dust or pollen for asthma sufferers. In a new study conducted at New York University, more than 50% of asthma patients reported having an asthma attack after laughing too hard. Flour also emerged as an asthma risk factor. British researchers studying supermarket bakeries found that roughly 15% of the workers developed work-related asthma symptoms, including sneezing, wheezing and difficulty breathing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A-Z Guide to the Year in Medicine | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

...very surreal,” said Delaney-Smith of being named. “The whole thing, from A to Z, when I got the phone call asking me to be head coach, it was like, ‘Is this candid camera? Is this a joke...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HARVARD BASKETBALL 2005-06: Golden Touch | 11/18/2005 | See Source »

...Zander, who has made that country his personal project. His partner on the India team is Warrior, a 21-year veteran of Motorola who was born and educated in India. (Zander tried twice to recruit her to Sun when he was chief operating officer there, and a running joke at Motorola is that he took the CEO job just to work with her.) Instead of flooding India with cheap products, Warrior says, the company is introducing pared-down phones that share a design language with more expensive ones. They use the same accessories and logo, the keypads look similar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wireless: The Spark Plug | 11/10/2005 | See Source »

...Yeah, I’m 18’—it’s kind of like, they know I’ve been working here for years, so they know I’m not 18, so I try to make a joke out of it, because it doesn’t matter...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Ingredients for Success, Coming Right Up! | 11/9/2005 | See Source »

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