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...building (aside from the people who worked there), we felt conspicuously out of place. But in a sense, we were working there. We were the entertainment. We were ushered into a room upstairs and kept out of sight until they were ready for us. There, we were able to joke about an otherwise tense and uncomfortable situation. When they called us, we lined up and walked out into the hallway, where we proceeded to stand for a good 10 minutes. All around there were people mingling and having a good time, talking about the good ole days that certainly didn?...
...prepared for his lawyers' eyes only - the lawyers say it must have been stolen - full of salacious details: Diana once greeted her lover Hasnat Khan, a heart surgeon, at Kensington Palace stark naked except for diamond earrings and a fur coat; she liked to buy pregnancy tests as a joke; Burrell sneaked her lovers into the palace in the trunk of his car and gave them breakfast after she had left. The Sun dubbed him the "Blabbermouth Butler." But since he had always intended to keep this information secret, a court issued an injunction to block the Sun from blabbing...
...year is 1995. Vanilla Ice is nothing more than a pop culture joke, Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. are alive, and an intensifying “East Coast/West Coast” rivalry is sending hip-hop albums to the top of the charts. In other words, it’s not quite the right moment for a random white guy from the Midwest to embark on the path to rap superstardom...
Living in Mather House often feels like being the butt of a joke, and one that ceased to be amusing a long time ago at that. But at a Mather Senior Common Room event on Monday night, Jean Paul Carlhian, architect of Mather House (and also New Quincy and Leverett Towers), offered his rebuttal: Mather, it turns out, was intended to be a concrete monstrosity—sort...
...record for pushups and pull-ups, would grab McCain in the cloakroom in a mock wrestling hold. And when one of his amendments was inevitably defeated by a lopsided vote, Wellstone would walk over to the opposing Senator who had defeated him, slap him on the back and joke, "You were lucky this time." He remained the ideological conscience of Senate Democrats, goading them not to compromise the party's populist tradition by promoting such seemingly lost causes as universal health care and insurance coverage for mental illness. During a recent conversation with former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey, Wellstone joked...