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Your son married a Jew, a Christian and an Arab. It sounds like a joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Omar Sharif | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...Everyone thinks we’re a joke. We’re not a joke,” Byrd says as he stands with each arm around friends who have helped his campaign throughout the week despite fierce wind and busy schedules...

Author: By Elena Sorokin and Nicole B. Urken, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Byrd-Mani Work the Grassroots | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...just in Belgium. Some 30 cameras are attacked every year in the Netherlands. In the U.K., Motorists Against Detection says it's destroyed hundreds. The mother of such crusades is the Tuf-tuf Club. Harald Kolijn, 33, from Helmond in the southern Netherlands, started it as a joke in 2000 with a friend. It's since mushroomed into a Europe-wide army claiming 20,000 motorists who share tips on radar-detection devices and speed traps. Kolijn argues that the devices penalize speed instead of bad driving, but adds, "We don't condone vandalism." Yet the cameras work, slowing average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Driven To Destruction | 12/7/2003 | See Source »

...good sense of humor, though I’m still not quite sure if I was being laughed with or at. Points go out for presentation. My order of fresh rabbit sausage comes on a bed of shredded carrots: the bunny arrives displayed on its own favorite food. The joke, intentional or not, is soon forgotten for the flavor of the dish. The warm and mild white sausage is shelled in salty crisp pistachio crust, and perks up with the tartness of scattered cranberries...

Author: By Margot E. Kaminski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Salts Brings the Perfect Seasoning | 12/4/2003 | See Source »

...before, TIME photographer Chris Usher was in Waco with members of the White House staff. "They said: 'the president is going to Baghdad in two hours,'" Usher said. "We all thought it was a joke." They were forbidden to tell anyone. "Not even my wife knows where I am," said Fox News soundman John Wallace, who had been bundled into a car by White House officials and driven with about 10 other journalists to the airfield. "Everyone thinks we're with Bush in Waco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Surprise Iraq Visit | 11/27/2003 | See Source »

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