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...might think that reading a long appreciation of Phyllis Jenkins would be as useless as learning Esperanto. But in the long view, everything has a use - including Esperanto, as more than one kolera leganto (angry reader) informed me when I made a joke in my last column. It happens that I?m a fan of the language, people; in my youth I had an Esperanto dictionary. And I know that Esperanto was approved as the world?s language by a majority of League of Nations delegates, and denounced by Hitler and Stalin...
...really don’t have any joke or comment with which to follow this statement; I just felt compelled to include it because it was pretty much the only interesting thing said...
...very naïve person, but I thought that sentiments of this type had been forgotten by most fair-minded people. Yes we all like to joke about the characterizations of various schools, and I am no exception to this. For the most part, though, my impressions were backed up by actual experiences. Actually getting in someone’s face for what school they went to seemed a bizarre throwback, something from a different...
...Puffing on a magnificent Cohiba cigar at his home beside the Tigris River, Jumaluddin tries to put the rocky start of local democracy in perspective. "Iraqis don't know what democracy is," he says. He tries to explain the challenge by relating a joke that is making the rounds in Baghdad: "An old woman asks her son, 'What is this democracy I hear so much about? What does it mean?' Her son tells her that every four years there will be a new President. 'Isn't that wonderful, Mother?' The old woman thinks about it for a moment, and then...
...solution and said they would need to study it much more carefully before passing judgment. Says Preskill: "The mechanism he has in mind may not be so revolutionary." Nevertheless, Hawking acknowledged that Preskill had been right all along and paid off with the agreed-on prize: an encyclopedia. (The joke is that an encyclopedia, unlike a black hole, yields information easily. Hawking offered one on cricket, but Preskill held out for Total Baseball: The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia, which had to be flown...