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What sustains Wilentz's own cautious hope for Haiti is the energy of its people, who have somehow learned the art of surviving. Haiti, she writes, "made me think of the laughter of slaves" -- but slaves, she all but adds, who will someday find their way to freedom...
...view. No longer. Now, whether in their own restaurants or as employees, women across the U.S. have earned their toques as chefs: the leaders of kitchen staffs, not merely cooks who work at their own stations. To suggest a woman as chef even ten years ago would have prompted laughter. Women, went the old calumny, are not creative enough to be chefs. And anyway, how could they lift those hot 60-qt. stockpots? "Very carefully," says Joan Woodhull, 20, a recent graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., where 25% of the 1,850 students...
Generating laughter throughout the speech, Lewis spoke at length about news stories on the sex life and pets of Elton John run by the Daily Sun and the World News Today, both of which are owned by Rupert Murdoch. The stories in this recent series resulted in John filing libel suits against the press...
...might not be the most original joke in stand-up comedy, but it drew hysterical laughter Saturday afternoon at the Business School when the South Boston pre-schooler told it to 600 children during the second annual "Boston Happening," a day-long festival sponsored by the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston...
...family fund": a stash of up to $15,000 in cash that North claimed he kept in a steel box bolted to the floor of a closet in his suburban Washington home. North's initial explanation of how he happened to have that much cash lying around elicited muffled laughter from the courtroom audience. "When I would come home on Friday . . . I would take my change out of my pocket and put it in that steel box I'd been issued as a midshipman." When Keker expressed his disbelief, North added another explanation: proceeds from a 1964 insurance settlement after...