Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...politician would use: take facts and distort them. You said these candidates will appear on the ballots of most states. Does that mean you are mocking the millions of Americans who feel that something needs to be done to drastically change the government's corrupt practices? Making a joke out of those candidates who can make this country great is insulting. EITAN GAUCHMAN, 17 Champaign, Illinois Via E-mail...
Peninsula has long been permeated by a kind of agitprop culture. They're a marginal group at Harvard, and they can only get attention if they create a stir. Certainly, it's in bad taste to joke about enemies lists and firing squads. But as the line "making a list and checking it twice" evokes images of jolly St. Nick, not of belligerent Benito, I think we're justified in assuming that Peninsula's goal was not really to inspire all good men to unbind their faces. Peninsula well deserves the contempt this latest stunt has brought them...
...other game, such a play would be a huge momentum-shifter; here, it was kind of a joke. There were 15 minutes left to play and the lead had been slashed to five. And when Blain tallied her second goal of the day 10 minutes later, the original margin was restored...
When I expressed my views to the male friend who was recounting the event to me, he looked at me as if I had gone mad. He didn't think it was something to joke about--nor do I. I wasn't joking, simply repeating the oft-heard responses to the crime of rape. On the day that this innocent child was victimized, and her future torn forcefully and mercilessly from her, more than 469 other women and girls were also raped. They are also innocent victims. They do not deserve to be asked about their sexual histories, or what...
...relief. The bad news is that it came from marijuana, which is not available by legal means. Worse news is that Daly is a former member of the San Francisco police commission, the body that regulates the police department. Even in easygoing San Francisco, felony drug possession is no joke, especially for her. Then again, neither is cancer. "I have a lot better things to do with my life," she says, "than breaking...