Word: pang
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...real proof that humor is immutable isn't that you still shamefully laugh at a 1972 cartoon in which a Chinese warrior says, "That banquet was most delicious, and yet now, somehow, once again I feel the pang of hunger." It's that every week Mankoff has to reject great submissions because the research department sends him typed index cards enumerating similar jokes made in New Yorker cartoons over the past 79 years. Seriously, people, let go of the deserted island...
...Pang says that during a decade of work and study in the United States, he never had to wait more than 10 days to update his visa...
Panicked as the first day of classes drew nearer, Pang began e-mailing administrators at the GSD. “There was really nothing they could do,” he says. And the only step the GSD might have taken, he adds, it did not. “I was really hoping to get deferred,” he says...
...Pang contemplated trying to get re-accepted into one of the British programs he had turned down. Luckily for Pang—unlike about a dozen other students who experienced severe visa delays that year—the long-awaited document arrived in time...
...Pang says the new requirement has marred his experience even after making it to the United States by a narrow margin. He encountered the system immediately after stepping off the plane when he returned from a trip to Barcelona he took this past spring—his first foray out of the country since he barely made...