Word: jokes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Nobel Prize have been swirling around Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren as far back as 1997-at least in Western Australia, where the two scientists are local heroes, and where I was once a medical writer for the local newspaper in Perth, my hometown. As a joke, Marshall, a gastroenterologist, and Warren, a now-retired pathologist, had even taken to sharing a beer down by the Swan River in Perth every year when the Nobel for medicine was announced...
...Honestly, it was just a joke. I can’t say I’m a big fan of those books. It was wonderful to see film on that scale. The production designer I was working for was amazing. The director was great and full of ideas. But all of it is a pretty thankless task. The pleasure of doing “MirrorMask” was there were no levels you had to get through. It was a personal project. I thought of something and it was on the screen the next...
...fullest, and realize that these four years are so unlike any other four in your life that you’d best “invest” in them to get a good “return.” That’s a little joke for the I-Bankers out there...
...comedian. With the president, I know that he would have to be nice to me, suck up to me even, because he has an image to maintain. He would be proper, corny, and charismatic and my responsibilities would include smiling, maintaining eye contact and possibly laughing at a joke...
...individual and the educational community in which we live, the ways in which the community is a diverse one, and the freedoms we enjoy within it.” Yet as much as I admire the sentiment behind this statement, the slim volume is ultimately kind of a joke. How many of us actually read the essays? How many of us actually participated in the discussions? After four essays and an hour-long chat, the University leaves us on our own to sort through all the ethical complexities of attending a place like Harvard?...