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...running tiff with the government over dates and venues for his tournament, and it is a measure of the importance of cricket to India that the IPL's request to be provided additional security during the time of general elections was not only made but also entertained. The joke in India is that more people will be watching cricket than will be casting their votes anyway...
Freshmen have eagerly examined each of the Houses, particularly while drinking and peeing in their courtyards. Some superstitious first-years even sent flaming boats down the Charles, like that’s some sort of joke. Right, sure, flaming boats are funny. How about, we all remember the MAINE! How quickly we forget...
...Giansanti photograph that inspired that Man of the Year cover art would eventually become the cover image itself in 2005 to commemorate John Paul II's death. It was not a posed shot. John Paul was visiting seminarians when someone made a joke and, recalled Giansanti, "that expression that he has, almost like a Mona Lisa smile, came across his face just as the light was striking him perfectly. It is the most beautiful photo I ever shot of him." A couple of weeks after John Paul's death, Giansanti's work was on the cover of TIME again with...
...middle of decrying the misdeeds of the financial firm AIG, President Barack Obama cracked a joke. "Excuse me," he said Monday, after coughing into the microphone. "I am choked up with anger here." There were laughs all around the gilded East Room of the White House because he didn't sound angry...
...juries made up of regular people can make decisions about complex problems with integrity and without any vested interests - qualities the Team feels carry more weight than does the experience of being a member of the political establishment. (The name also, of course, may reflect its founder's narcissistic joke: Judge and Jury Team...