Word: jokes
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...complain about a T-shirt that says “Yale sucks, Jeter swallows,” will undoubtedly elicit dismissive responses —after all, can’t people take a joke? But this has to be said...
Although today some pundits like to joke about Bush’s lack of foreign policy depth, his family did give him specific knowledge of current events overseas, enabling him to chat freely with his classmates. “This was when OPEC was first being formed,” Kahn says, “and he was unusually, in my memory, well informed about the particulars of the different countries that were players at the time, compared to most...
...organizer who graduated from Harvard last year, is responsible for ensuring that 6,000 Democrats who don’t always vote on election day get their vote counted before November 2. In a state where 366 votes decided the last election, Ruben’s job is no joke. Democrats have every reason to believe that if Ruben succeeds, John Kerry will win New Mexico. Democrats enjoy a 5 to 3 advantage among registered voters in New Mexico. That means Democrats have far more to gain than Republicans from efforts targeted at getting voters to the polls. Only...
...Catskills comic, using the stage name Jack Roy, he left the business for 12 years and sold aluminum siding. But he made a comeback in his 40s, with a new name (suggested by a club owner) and a new catchphrase, "I don't get no respect." A zealous joke writer--he would jot them down on the cardboard from his laundered shirts--he got his first big break with a spot on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1967. To avoid going on the road and leaving his kids, he borrowed money and opened his own club, Dangerfield...
...Time two years ago in Vedeno remembered Basayev as a harsh, mercurial leader. "One moment he could be nice, the next minute he could curse you out, really insult you," recalled Sultan, a Basayev aide. "Then he would come back, see you were offended and say it was a joke. I was never convinced." (About a year ago, Sultan was detained by the Russians and has not been heard from since.) Kazbek, a deeply religious young fighter who joined Basayev for the 1995 siege of a hospital in Budennovsk in the Russian region of Stavropol in which 120 people died...