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...paid nothing, but are instead expected to use their influence to extort money from local business owners and politicians. Inday Espina-Varona, chairwoman of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines and editor in chief of the newsweekly Philippine Graphic, says, "In the provinces, there's a standing joke: 'When you get hired as a journalist, you won't need a salary. Why? Because you have a press card...
...TIME Archives Online Heroin, cocaine, speed, pot, ecstasy. TIME has reported on all those drugs and others for more than 80 years, bringing the harsh reality of usage and addiction to our readers. "Coke is no joke," we pointed out in our July 6, 1981, cover story, "High on Cocaine." TIME's article detailed the pervasiveness of use by middle-class Americans and quoted an initiate as saying, "After one hit of cocaine I feel like a new man. The only problem is, the first thing the new man wants is another hit." Subscribers can read that report in full...
...making it to the screen this year (perhaps more than usual). But does the world really need a mega-budget screen version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, which means more dopey Christian allegory than The Lord of the Rings already provided? And Hollywood apparently missed the joke of Team America: World Police’s hilarious spoof of the Broadway musical Rent (“Everyone has AIDS! My father…AIDS! My sister…AIDS!”) because the movie version will debut this year, helmed by none other than Home Alone director...
Many blogs in the directory seem to be one-post wonders, and others haven’t been updated for more than a year. Even when the blogs appear to be regularly updated, the best that their content offers is often “A Joke You Won’t Think Is Funny” or an announcement of the 2005 Special Librarians Association Awards...
...months before he died of fever in Missolonghi in western Greece, broken and legendary at 36, George Gordon, Lord Byron, staged an elaborate practical joke on a friend. Knowing that a recent earthquake had frightened the friend badly, Byron sent fifty men into the basement of the house where they were staying, with instructions to jump up and down. Meanwhile, other men were dispatched to roll cannonballs back and forth across the upstairs rooms. The friend fled the shuddering house, terrified...