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...different: different from our parents, from our brothers and sisters, and certainly different from that amorphous mass of “relatives” that we see a few times a year. At a certain point, however, perhaps after a long story, a short anecdote, or a crude joke, we become aware of just how much we resemble our brethren. After many years of asserting our own identity, it is more than a little humbling to discover that we, at times, seem nothing more than a hodge-podge collection of the habits and idiosyncrasies of our aunts, uncles, and grandparents...
...trying comedy in The Pink Panther make you feel as exposed? Pink Panther was much more scary. To tell a joke that no one laughs at in a movie is so potentially embarrassing on a kind of international platform...
...theologians of the Middle Ages, who counterproposed limbo. The Protestant reformers eliminated it from their theology along with several other postdeath constructs, but it remained a looming staple of Catholic understanding. Says Martin: "I've rarely baptized a baby where [limbo] has not come up, at least as a joke...
...described a mandatory workshop of crisp final instructions--"it is imperative"--but King labored more broadly to overcome festering doubt and confusion about why they must go to Washington. He thanked his father Daddy King and others for fill-in speeches to cover his tardiness. He made a faltering joke about the tepid response of friends with their coats still on--"they act like it's cold in my church"--and betrayed rare unease in a defensive speech...
...Melinda and Bill are equals. "She is not a junior partner in any way, shape or form. Bill likes that," says Warren Buffett, a close friend (and the second richest man in the world, for those who are counting). Says Sylvia Mathews, the foundation's chief operating officer: "We joke and say Bill and Melinda have 21/2 degrees: she has two; he has a half." (Melinda, 41, has a bachelor's degree in computer science and economics and a master's in business from Duke University. Bill, 50, dropped out of Harvard at the end of his sophomore year...