Word: politicoes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...interesting in revealing the similarities between standup comedy and campaigning: in both venues, the speaker needs to charm his listeners and stir them to applause (the manual version of voting). Franken is a serious guy with irresistible comic impulses. The tummler in him can?t understand why a top politico would advise him not to tell his favorite joke - one by Buddy Hackett, about a penis growing out of a man?s forehead - on the campaign trail...
Perhaps it should come as no surprise that Joel D. Kaplan ’91—the replacement of Bush’s right-hand-man Karl Rove—was an active politico during his time at Harvard. But what is less easily anticipated is that Kaplan’s political party of choice was the Harvard Dems—he served as a Harvard delegate to the 1990 local State Democratic Conventions...
...other at least for a time,” he said, referring to his decision not to run.But the dark horse-turned-political darling may have harbored some desire to take another shot at a seat on the council. Winters said he ran into the young politico at a party earlier this year.“Did you think about it?” Winters recalled asking DeBergalis.The tantalizing response: “Yeah, I thought about it.” —Staff writer Michael M. Grynbaum can be reached at grynbaum@fas.harvard.edu...
...tell you the truth, I am not sure why it is,” Alesina wrote in an e-mail. “I love the field of economics and I think it is a great way of analyzing socio-politico-economic problems in addition to having a business angle, but why now as opposed to before or later more and more students are realizing this, well I cannot quite...
...indulge their inner frat boys, show up at the church as third cousins of the best man's stepuncle, and after the reception they have great sex with women they need never see again. Now the season is over, but there's one more wedding to crash. A prominent politico (Christopher Walken) is giving away a daughter, and, as plot would have it, he's got two more to spare: horny Gloria (Isla Fisher) for Jeremy, foxy Claire (Rachel McAdams) for John. Gee, do ya think the lads'll fall in love with their prey...