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...example - then embarrassing real people by asking inane questions and making rude observations. A riff on the Michael Moore style of confrontation, it's a tactic I'm usually not crazy about, since anyone can seem a fool when he's not allowed in on the joke. As Moore once made me uneasily sympathetic to (or feel pity for) General Motors chairman Roger Smith, so Ali G. nudged me to the side of the politicians and aged authors who were the butts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Borat Takes Toronto | 9/13/2006 | See Source »

...Most of the movies so-called victims, however, ask for it. The film's running gag is that Borat, like all of his supposed countrymen, has a childlike fear of Jews (a joke, of course, since Cohen and most of the film's primary perpetrators are Jewish). In his home town, the annual event is the Running of the Jew; and when he and his team travel across the U.S., they decide to drive (in an ice cream wagon) because his producer "insisted we not fly, in case the Jews repeated their attack of 9/11." While in the South, Borat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Borat Takes Toronto | 9/13/2006 | See Source »

...Georgetown 7COLUMBIA VS. FORDHAM (1-1)It’s the beginning of the Norries Wilson Era in New York as Columbia meets a squad almost as pitiful as it is. Vegas set the over/under for this contest as i. And that, ladies and gentlemen, was a math joke. Good vibes and home field carry Columbia to perhaps its only win of the year.Prediction: Columbia 13, Fordham 10CORNELL AT BUCKNELL (1-1)If you don’t already know the name Luke Siwula, take some time to learn it now. Now that I mention it though...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IN LEHMAN'S TERMS: Let the Games, Gambling Begin on Ivy League Gridiron | 9/12/2006 | See Source »

...back out of Iraq, only to be stopped by a gunman hired by Bush's old strings-puller, and the new president, Dick Cheney. But a peacenik or Islamist or disgruntled office-seeker pulling the trigger? Not if he considers the consequences. Those around Richard Nixon used to joke that no one would shoot him, because then Spiro Agnew would become President. Similarly, anyone who harbored murderous impulses toward Bush might think for a minute and, to put in in Maureen Dowd terms, let W. live, in order to keep Darth Vader from taking over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Killed George Bush? | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

...fact that Hillary polarizes the country so much says more about the electorate than it does about her abilities and agenda. Sadly, Americans still prefer women with curves rather than nerves. We rush to mock (as your cover blatantly did) any woman with bold opinions and vision. But the joke is on us because we lose every time we permit ourselves to shrink the pool of qualified candidates, female or male, to a collection of shallow and weak-minded individuals who are more likely to muddle in mediocrity than dare to dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 18, 2006 | 9/10/2006 | See Source »

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