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Reykjavík, Iceland In the Icelandic language the words for "money" and "sheep" are the same. But under Iceland's current economic conditions, goes a joke doing the rounds, only one will put food on the table and a coat on your back - as long as you eat mutton and wear wool. With a flagging currency and a crippled banking sector, Icelanders are fast losing their jobs, savings and businesses. The government fears that some may even be losing their minds: the Icelandic Ministry of Health has set up an emergency mental-health center in downtown Reykjav...
...building a career on comedy, but Simon H. Rich ’06-’07 seems to be proving that he is no joke. In his short time as an alumnus, the wunderkind has been frightfully prolific: he is the youngest writer in the history of “Saturday Night Live,” has his work appear regularly in The New Yorker, and has just renewed his contract with Random House after publishing two books with them in the last two years. FM snagged the budding author for fifteen questions...
...would always say that I wasn’t the most strategic choice. There’s this joke at Stuy that you have to choose an Asian running mate,” says Marta Bralic ’12, who was vice president to another candidate that year. She is not Asian...
...guess it was personal and also societal. Personally, a trickle of insults became a flood. A skirt that had been just fine all of a sudden seemed inappropriately short. A liquor store clerk asked for ID and then laughed as if he had made a funny joke. I ran into a suspiciously fresh-faced friend and, when she confessed to Botox, I wanted to yell, "Hey, that's no fair!" Then I wanted to get some for myself. I thought I'd crossed that invisible but really visible line into middle age. And as a longtime journalist and social observer...
...York Stock Exchange, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon was asked how much more credit crisis is left to play out. "Nobody really knows," he said. "Clearly we're in the panic stage of unreasonable behavior." At the Connecticut offices of UBS, nervous colleagues passed around a joke about why the market was like a divorce but worse: "I've lost half my net worth, and I still have my wife." Off-color humor for off-color times...