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...conundrum, and Patel is obliged to rake through centuries and continents for the seeds - pardon the pun - of the world's dietary inequity. The library work is solid - he is currently a researcher at South Africa's University of KwaZulu-Natal, as well as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. As you would expect from that résumé, he writes like an academic - but that's not to say the book is bloodless. Patel has a highly developed historical sense of why we eat as we do, and if readers who have enough food understand...
Harvard has reason to be proud of an organization such as the Coop, begun by students in 1882 that has remained specifically tailored to the Harvard and MIT communities. But if unreasonable policies and astronomical costs are the price we pay (pun unintended), the time has come for students to find a new and better option...
...pretty tough, and the pun on the general's name is pretty witless. You could argue that since the verb betray and the noun traitor have the same root, the ad is accusing the head of American forces in Iraq of treason. The ad can also be interpreted - more plausibly if you consider the rest of the text - merely as questioning the general's honesty, not his patriotism. But whatever your interpretation of the ad, all the gasping for air and waving of scented handkerchiefs among the war's most enthusiastic supporters is pretty comical...
...Imagine a family table that can pull up the layout of every board game ever made. "I think we're just scratching the surface," says Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's entertainment and devices division, realizing a second too late that he's making a pun. "If you just go through any business, you can find applications." Milan will start showing up in public this fall; the first units will be information kiosks in the Harrah's family of casinos...
...When Katzenberg asked for questions, the international press was ready. "To bee or not to bee - this is the question," one journalist posed. "Will there be a C and a D movie," another asked, "and maybe an X?" Seinfeld winced at each joke. "The bee pun reflex," he observed with a kind of courtesy, "is something we've struggled with for three years." Warning to the press: Never try to make a comedian laugh...