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...again, the U.S. will slap him down. But they are skittish about provoking a sleeping beast and fear he might retaliate. They don't trust Saddam's judgment under bombardment, assuming that he could use his terror weapons as a last resort. A Jordanian official says, "You don't poke a lion...
...final club punch-season humor, I wanted to know, a coy attempt to poke fun at the Diversity and Distinction view of the world? Or is it part of a serious effort to get Harvard women down on the mats with each other...
...Tasty, Coney was well known for his good-natured humor and his tendency to poke fun at customers, but he says he toned down the jokes...
...title spoofed The Crimson's liberal political reputation. "I loved the irony of it--to poke fun at ourselves," he says...
Despite all of these issues and complications, however, Wobegon Boy is still for the most part an entertaining and even warm-hearted read. Keillor's affection for his fellow Midwesterners, while still being able to poke great fun at them, is unmatched in his field. Conversations between elderly relatives is compared to a Samuel Beckett play, an uncle in politics claims that "bribery [is] simply a case of the free market at work simplifying the decision-making process," and the modern-day world always provides fodder for laughs. When one of John's aunts complains about her fatigue, another relative...