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...Have your political views ever prevented you from landing a role you really wanted? -Robert Coupee, Poole, EnglandI don't know how you would know. People probably think of me as Debbie Downer-I have become kind of a joke in terms of activism for some people. But it is like worrying if your slip is showing when you're fleeing a burning building. You have to prioritize...
...photograph shown to jurors, Princess Diana sits between her two sisters in the backseat of a car, the three of them doubled over in laughter. Perhaps you can't remember the joke, the attorney suggests to the witness, Diana's eldest sister, the Lady Sarah McCorquodale. Aloof and understated throughout the day's proceedings, she breaks into a naughty grin: "I'm afraid...
...have as part of our corporate culture, our enterprise culture?' " he explained Saturday of his effort to save the Salt Lake City Olympics. "And one of the rules we had was we were going to have fun. And the first rule was every meeting had to begin with a joke. And it took some work to find jokes...
...famous; Mark Salter, McCain's co-author, speechwriter and id; and Rick Davis, a successful lobbyist and Washington sage. They've all been with the campaign since it began, and they all survived its implosion last summer; the only thing that really took a hit in its aftermath, they joke, is their pocketbooks...
...waste of $20 billion of good arms. I called Dr. Ephraim Sneh, recently departed deputy defense minister and an expert on Iran. Since he commanded Israeli forces in southern Lebanon in the early '80s, he has watched Iran's rise with mounting alarm. "This isn't a joke for Israel. Iran is thousands of miles from you, hundreds for us. Iran is an existential threat to the state of Israel, said Sneh, who had no doubt in his mind that Israel should do something about Iran...