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Jennifer Mrowka ’01 was at a computer training facility in midtown Manhattan when she began to see photos of the towers on the screens of others who had simply intended to read the daily news. She thought it was a practical joke...
...turned out to be a very bad student, rarely completing my assignments. Coach was very encouraging about the few jokes I did send him. Though he didn't like my bit on how we should drill in barren Alaska instead of Texas, where they have people and baseball teams, he liked the ones about how only tiny women play the harp, why hotels give you shower caps and sewing kits but no toothpaste, and how bathroom signs are the only places in society where a thin, barrel-chested man can be next to a dumpy woman shaped like a triangle...
With a song in his heart and "stingers" in his pockets (i.e., pointed barbs scribbled by his joke writers), actor JAMIE FOXX, 33, insists that he's ready to be the host of this week's MTV Music Video Awards, a ceremony that prizes spontaneous combustion. New York City's Metropolitan Opera House is the venue, so Foxx says he'll open the show with nominated songs sung aria-style. In between introducing performers like Britney Spears, Jay-Z, Staind and U2, says Foxx, his mission is to set the pace and "up the ante." He's also intent...
...dazzles them with his effortless command. The moment he set foot in the State Department last January, he was met with rapturous applause. When he paid a call in Beijing three months after a U.S. spy plane was forced to land on Hainan island, he coaxed a joke out of somber President Jiang Zemin and left the leadership beaming that he "respected" China. They returned the compliment with a long-awaited $2 billion order for Boeing 737s. When Powell met George W. Bush in 1997 at a Texas charity fund raiser, the new Governor stepped forward and saluted: "General, Texas...
...after resolving not even to joke about chewing gum or littering over the phone, lest I be picked up by the secret police and caned on the spot, I went to Singapore to find out what it is like...