Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actually not all that funny to make joke about the food in the dining halls. Just eat it and shut...
While the threat of a Russian invasion seems a distant memory for most Americans, for Alaskans, who make up 0.002 percent of Harvard undergraduates, it is very real. Vladimir Zhirinovsky may seem like a joke to the residents of the 49 other states, but some Alaskan residents say he represents a grave threat to their state...
...unlikely that the coming semester will see Harvard define a grand New Joke Order. Likely the campus will wallow in a hellish Armageddon of humor gone wrong. How far out of control will this epidemic of pranks spiral? How many must die, or at least get really annoyed, before University Hall steps in? Pranks have been taken out of the hands of professionals and taken up by an unpredictable mob. Beware, Harvard, the minute hand on the Doomsday clock is ticking. Oh, yes, it is ticking...
...assures his hosts, "We have no intention, none, of letting this be a short-term thing." Pause. Soon, he says, he and Budget Director Leon Panetta will "go back to Washington and figure out how to pay for it." He is smiling, but this is obviously not a joke...
...those who doubt that the D.C. General program alone is sufficient to keep such children out of the foster-care system in the long run. One skeptic is Dr. Sidney Jones, the hospital's chief of obstetrics and gynecology. "The idea of a three-month outpatient program is a joke," he says. "I want money for a house where these women can live for a year." Donna Carson, founder of the Atlanta program, agrees: "A lot of mothers will abandon their babies after they get home because their life isn't working. They need long-term support...