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...calling them to view global poverty not as an economic problem, but "a moral issue." While we at Flyby would like to endorse the alleviation of world poverty, his choice to lecture on morality is slightly ironic. (Yes we are going to make the obligatory John Edwards joke: it was a late night for FlyBy so if you have a problem with that you can step off...or comment below.) In any case, leaving one's cancer-stricken wife for a fling is morally questionable--and FlyBy's not sure morality even comes into play when...
Ahsan added that "it's a tragic irony" that he is now being hunted by policemen on the orders of a government led by his own party. "It's also a joke," he said sourly. "Particularly because I stand the ground on which the late Benazir Bhutto [Zardari's assassinated wife] stood when she promised the reinstatement of the Chief Justice. And I stand on the ground that is sanctified by three signatures on three different occasions by the new President, Asif Ali Zardari. It's ironic that the person who didn't break an agreement should...
Pictures of the signs have been posted on various Internet forums, but nobody seems to know anything about them. Are the signs a joke? Somehow related to Craigslist? Maybe they're some form of weird modern art that we don't understand because we don't wear berets. Why does he keep using different kinds of tape...
...Radcliffe Chinese Student Association, applauded the choice of Kim and the response by the Dartmouth community. “I think the message was written in poor taste,” he said. “But I have faith that the Dartmouth community knows that this sort of joke is just not as effective in this age of diversity.” On the day the e-mail was sent out, interns from Dartmouth’s Pan Asian Council and representatives from the Inter-Community Council, Diversity Peer Advisor interns, and a member of the GGMM held...
Between Coverage and Safety Net Pat's decision to save some money by buying short-term insurance was a big mistake, says Karen Pollitz, project director of Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute and a leading expert on the individual-insurance market. "These short-term policies are a joke," she says. "Nobody should ever buy them. It is false security that is being sold. It's junk...