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...This is crazy. Police found a pound and a half of marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms in Willie Nelson's tour bus. Willie is nervous about this. He's afraid he may have to spend the rest of 1969 in jail." DAVID LETTERMAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punchlines: Oct. 2, 2006 | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

Some will say that students will hardly get a “real taste” of the class. But let’s examine the status quo. As it is, professors change their colors after the first week. Before that, they tend to be funnier, nicer, and more nervous about their topics in an effort to keep their auditoriums full...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri, Shai D. Bronshtein, Adam M. Guren, and Sarah C. Mcketta | Title: Shop ’til You Drop | 9/22/2006 | See Source »

...October 26 Smith will be in Palm Springs competing against 24 Americans and 25 internationals for the title of Mr. Gay. It’s a prestigious (and succinct) distinction, but Smith insists he’s not feeling the heat. “I’m not nervous, not at all,” he says. To beat out the field, Smith will need to scale a rock climbing wall, make it through a fireman’s obstacle course, and dazzle the judges in a swimsuit competition. It sounds a bit like a Village People casting call...

Author: By Sachi A. Ezura, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Even Better than the Harvard Degree | 9/20/2006 | See Source »

...congressional seat for 20 years and has never had a tough race, but the district has trended blue in the latest presidential elections; John Kerry beat George W. Bush 51% to 48% here in 2004. As he traveled from event to event on a recent Sunday, Weldon seemed nervous and slightly desperate. His most persistent line of attack against Sestak was quite silly: that the admiral is a carpetbagger. "He still lives in Washington," Weldon told me. "He drives around the district in a car with Virginia plates. He gets the names of towns wrong when he visits them." Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Pennsylvania, it's the Admiral Vs. the Firefighter | 9/17/2006 | See Source »

...this is Washington, D.C., where wags have even figured out a way to turn the beloved Redskins into a tool for predicting presidential elections (if they lose their last home game before Election Day, that's a bad sign for the party in power - so with the GOP extra-nervous this year, expect Republicans to be Dallas Cowboys fans on Nov. 5 even though it's only a midterm). Both the mayor's race and the campaign for D.C. Council chair featured multiple contenders for open seats, and candidates dumped enough money on TV ads and mailers that few could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Town Where Voters Don't Show | 9/15/2006 | See Source »

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