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Archaeologists like to joke that the pillaging of temples and other ancient sites is the world's second oldest profession. But what used to be a trickle of plundered treasures has become a flood in recent years. Villagers like Little Su, who see nothing wrong in converting an untapped resource into a few modern consumer appliances, are merely the first link in a global antiquities-smuggling chain that the U.N. says rivals the drug and arms trades in scope and scale. Says Kathryn Tubb, conservator of the Institute of Archaeology at University College of London: "It's commonly accepted...
...with a nice Italian girl. After Angelo’s new apartment is robbed, he moves in with Nino, a childhood friend who, like Angelo, is gay. But tell their parents? Fugghedaboutit. Mambo Italiano is a mess. Where sexual orientation, ethnic and family issues should be addressed seriously, another joke is made to relieve the tension. The idea of a gay Italian-French-Canadian has a lot of comic potential; in the end, unfortunately, the director is too overwhelmed to stop making jokes and tell what could have been a winning story...
...What is your favorite joke...
...June, the U.S. called off plans for local elections and appointed hand-picked mayors, much to the chagrin of many Iraqis. American forces also handpicked an Iraqi Governing Council, though L. Paul Bremer still maintains veto power over their decisions. The Iraqis recognize that this governing council is a joke and merely an effort by the U.S. to find Iraqis to collaborate with its own plans. Now the U.S. is even trying to make deals with tribal leaders, as they have done in Afghanistan where the U.S. military is responsible for restoring many Northern Alliance warlords to power. There...
Sammy Davis Jr. used to tell a joke: "My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time." It's typical of Davis to ruin a perfectly good joke with a lie: his mother was Cuban, a nationality that was, in white America circa 1966, even less popular than Puerto Rican. But there's also a truth tucked inside the lie: Davis was running away from himself, as many ways as he possibly could...