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...that turn into Pygmy? I liked the idea of writing a character who is kind of a cipher and isn't readily explained the moment you meet him. This allows everyone who meets Pygmy and interacts with him to project their worst prejudices, self-righteousness and bigotry onto him. They're not even sure what race he is. His name isn't even really Pygmy...
...fair, foreign media sometimes exaggerate the incidents. Calling out to the American President in front of Queen Elizabeth II, after the official photo op at the G-20 in London ("Mr. Obamaaa! I'm Mr. Berlusconi!") was a lovely Borat moment - harmless, and quite funny. Talking on his mobile while Angela Merkel was waiting for him at the NATO summit? He was just showing off ("I can convince Turkish leader Erdogan to accept Rasmussen as head at NATO. Leave it to me, guys.") And when he told earthquake victims in Abruzzo to think of their situation "like a weekend...
...popular. A mixture of Juan Perón and Frank Sinatra. Never a dull moment. Does the Italian media criticize him? Not his papers and his TV stations. Nor, with a few exceptions, state-controlled outlets such as Rai. The right-wing press adores him. The left-wing press despises him. Only a few papers - including my own Corriere della Sera - discuss him day by day, case by case, column by column...
...House formal sometime this week, chances are the person you have to thank for playing "Low" right when you want to dance with that girl in the short red dress is none other than Harvard's current DJ of the moment, DJ Straus...
...College Evelynn M. Hammonds’s indication at the same forum that official student input in the process would primarily flow through already established committees ought to give some pause. These committees and their selection procedures may not be well-designed to express student interest in this moment of debate over core values—at a time when many more than the “usual suspects” have an interest in how student voices are expressed to the administration...