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...sketches about South Asian stereotypes, including a protracted bit about stereotypically protective Indian parents and their kids. In a particularly memorable and amusing monologue, Shankar Ramaswamy ’11 adopted a stereotypical Indian accent only to defend it by impersonating varying American accents and impugning the audience for laughing at him. When we laugh at him, Shankar says, he laughs back. In another skit, two of the many non-South-Asian performers discussed the glamorous, festive image of India. Stepping off the plane in India, the two predict lots of colorful dresses, vibrant music, and energetic and suggestive dancers...
...approached the host: Great party, Bennett. Motioning to the homemade list of specialty cocktails (the “Topic Sentence-tini,” the “Works Cider”), I continued, You’ve clearly been planning this for a while. He let out a laugh and said, “This is always my best party of the year.” You hosted an end-of-thesis celebration before your senior year? How is that possible? “The people who write theses are the smart ones, right? Well, I guess they?...
Glendon says that Rove's call last summer was a "total surprise" but she didn't even need a moment to mull the offer of the ambassadorship. "Why sure, I'd love to do that!," she recalled, with a hearty laugh, was her instant response to Rove. Becoming the leading American government representative at the Vatican has required Glendon to give up her post at the Pontifical academy. She denied there was any conflict of interest in having served the Vatican in the past. "Like others I have done volunteer work for the Church; mine has been as an academic...
...Even if it doesn't go that far, the small budget ($16.5 million) les Ch'tis has already produced the mini-miracle of enticing French moviegoers into laugh away some of their own enduring regional prejudices. The movie tells the tale of Philippe Abrams, a manager in France's postal system whose efforts to finagle a transfer to the sunny Riviera go wildly wrong. His bosses punish him by sending him instead to the Nord Pas de Calais, warning him of its reputed cold, gloom, incessant rain, and expanses of flat, barren land pocked by slag heaps, abandoned mines...
...Policy advisors usually deal in subtlety and nuance, while candidates talk and think big picture and big ideas. Political staffers, including those working for Obama, often laugh privately and good-naturedly at the political awkwardness of people like Goolsbee; goofy comments are expected to be interpreted as the wonky discourse of a cerebral scholar. The Obama campaign will clearly have to revisit its past practice of letting policy advisors meet with whomever they wish or talk to the media without intensive preparation from the communications operation. Obama's political aides were clearly aware of the damage that had been done...