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At�the�Philadelphia�Eagles'�practice�complex one day last week, the producer of quarterback Donovan McNabb's weekly local TV show asked if he would be available for an interview a day before Super Bowl XXXIX in Jacksonville, Fla. With mock seriousness, McNabb warned that the hoopla of the game, between the Eagles and defending champion New England Patriots, might leave him stretched for time. "Worst case, just get some guy off the street in Jacksonville to go on," McNabb joked. He then found a problem with that plan. "The guy would say, 'Donovan who? A quarterback? You mean...
...Vittorio Pisani, head of the city's police investigative unit, says the vast majority of Neapolitans would love to see the Camorra destroyed. Indeed, on Saturday street protesters in Naples held a candlelight [an error occurred while processing this directive] vigil, and in December other protesters sprawled out under mock bloody sheets to denounce the killings. Still, Pisani says, "Most people are simply too scared to speak up." It wasn't always like this. In the 1990s, Naples experienced a momentary renaissance as tourism boomed and civic pride swelled in the wake of the 1994 G-7 summit held...
True, there are some differences between the two pinnacles of totalitarianism; but the similarities, especially in terms of human suffering and misery, are overwhelming enough for them to be judged in the same vein. We would never consider putting mock-Nazi propaganda on a House Committee t-shirt; nor would we ever think of making a swastika out of a beer-bong and a keg tap. We probably wouldn’t wear a t-shirt saying “give me some lebenstraum,” and we would never think of sporting a t-shirt with Hitler?...
...Kyle and I would bond anyway!” says Lackner, with mock agitation. “Seriously, I always tell her how happy I am that there are at least two of us in the class...
...concern about how she will be perceived when she enters the socially conservative world of politics. She is worried that people will dismiss her. “‘She went to Harvard, yeah, but she studied women,’” she says in a mock jeer. Menendez is so conscious of her effect on people that she even makes a gesture toward acknowledging that she tends to polarize them. “I know myself and I know the way people perceive me well enough to know the effect of the awkward juxtapositions...