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...REYKJAVÍK, ICELAND Frozen Assets 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 industry, Icelanders are fast losing their jobs, savings and businesses. The government fears that some may even be losing their minds: a few days ago, the Icelandic Ministry of Health set up an emergency mental-health center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now the Real Pain Begins | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcards from Europe's Financial Bust | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Catherine J. Zielinski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Simon H. Rich | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Linda Zheng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Following “Frontrunners” | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

What she has said: On her previous governmental roles: "I was fortunate to oversee the transformation of the South Africa Revenue Service from parliament and it was a joke in those days. They didn't even have ribbons to print the tax returns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa's AIDS Truthsayer | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

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