Word: mr
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...connections aren’t enough reason for aspiring comedy writers to attend Harvard, the inspiration certainly is. Allegedly, Bass Professor of Government Michael Sandel is the physical model for Mr. Burns. Whether Burns possesses the same propensity for moral reasoning is questionable, as Homer Simpson’s infamous boss graduated from Yale...
Military Police at Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison dubbed him the Iceman; others used the nickname Mr. Frosty. Some even called him Bernie, after the character in the 1989 movie Weekend at Bernie's, about a dead man whose associates carry him around as if he were still alive. The prisoner is listed as Manadel al-Jamadi in three official investigations of his death while in U.S. custody, a death that was ruled a homicide in a Defense Department autopsy. Photographs of his battered corpse -- iced to keep it from decomposing in order to hide the true circumstances...
...with a stranger. As they drove, he was stripped of his backpack, pens and belt, and was blindfolded, hooded and thrown into the back of another car. "There was a bad 10 minutes in there where I'm thinking, 'You are really an idiot,'" he says. "'You're like Mr. Magoo. You just wander over to the Middle East and, literally, within the first 20 minutes get kidnapped and beheaded. World record...
...Iraq. Over what Gaghan calls "the best cappuccino of my life," they bantered in Perle's palatial kitchen until Gaghan, at that point quite knowledgeable about the Middle East, questioned the viability of Perle's friend Ahmad Chalabi as a future Iraqi leader. "[Perle] steepled his hands just like Mr. Burns on The Simpsons and stared at me. Then the doorbell rang--beat ... beat ... beat--'Excellent. I'll introduce you to Bibi on the way out.'" (Neither Perle nor former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned calls for comment...
...this nation of inmates. Even his strict translators and guides, who are gently gibed throughout the book, are depicted in an engagingly human light. Shortly before leaving he takes a bottle of cognac meant for the head of the animation studio and gives it to his grumpy guide, Mr. Sin, who is ecstatic. "One of the few moments of real joy I witnessed," Delisle writes...