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...unseasonably hot sun, Furusho surveys the small rock garden he built outside his barracks. Next to the gray stones and tiny green bushes lazes Buddy, the company's guard dog. Buddy lies about all day on a green mat, barely moving. The joke among the soldiers is that the dog appears to do little but, if anyone tries anything, he would leap into action. That's maybe how they would like to see themselves. The lives of the Japanese soldiers here are not much more exciting than Buddy's. And if Buddy stays bored, that's good news for Japan...
Monday is the day when the real Harvard College surfaces. Undergrads always joke that pre-frosh weekend gives a false impression of our college life. First of all, it’s April and it’s warm. At no other time of the year is it possible to go out in shorts. (It snowed last Monday.) The admissions office times your arrival and the return of the color green to Boston perfectly...
...been sort of the running joke on the team that he's the best fall player on the team," Hopps said. "This winter, when we were hitting in the gym, he was hitting the crap out of the ball. He just kept saying, 'I hope I can actually do it when the season starts...
Sharon convened his cabinet at 6:30 Wednesday evening with a joke that has serious implications for peace. The Prime Minister had just held a meeting with Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, who shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Arafat for the Oslo peace accords. Sharon, whose reputation is as hawkish as Peres' is dovish, told his cabinet that Peres had advocated a stronger response: "Peres is more aggressive than I am." Peres responded, "Yes, he had to restrain me this time." It was another sign that there is a deep anger among supporters of the peace process who feel Arafat...
...address shorter than Santa Claus'. He had publicly become Pee-wee exclusively, showing up in character even for print interviews, and having Pee-wee, not Reubens, as the name on his star on the Walk of Fame that was jackhammered up after the scandal. "This was my own private joke on conceptual art because I tried to make Pee-wee Herman totally real. It worked really good but totally backfired when I got arrested," he says...