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...Laszlo, I could find out with DNA-lab-tested certainty which of us had influenced our child more. And for those of you worried about our putting him through this, know that the one thing babies look kindly upon donating is their drool. Especially when your last bodily request was for their foreskin. (See How You Can Change Your Genes...
...Washington, Netanyahu reportedly talked with Obama for some 90 minutes on Tuesday evening, then sequestered himself in a different room in the White House with his advisers for another hour and a half before holding a second half-hour meeting with the President at the Israelis' request. But even that failed to bridge the gap between the two sides over what would constitute an acceptable approach to restarting the peace process, and the Israeli leader remained in Washington Wednesday as aides from both sides worked on the issue. The Administration clearly fears that the hard-line position staked...
...fifteen years ago, a professor offered to donate a complete run of Penthouse Magazine to Widener Library. (Which professor? “I probably shouldn’t say,” Hazen laughed.) The collection was to be stored behind the desk in the Periodicals Room, requiring patron request for use. This ultimately didn’t work out, but only because, as Hazen put it, “The older women on staff were extraordinarily uncomfortable with the notion they’d have to be handing that stuff over...
...said, "Would you ever be willing to sit down with me and do interviews?" and he said he would do it on the condition that I would come out to his house and we would do multiple interviews and it would all be on the record. What a burdensome request...
...this past February to watch the 2010 Winter Olympics, one athlete you didn’t see was the world record-holder for ski jumping on Vancouver’s K95 hill, Lindsey Van. That’s because since 1998 the International Olympics Committee has refused every request to admit Women’s Ski Jumping as a recognized Olympic sport, while Men’s Ski Jumping has been included in the Olympics since the first modern games in 1924. In 2005, Gian Franco Kasper, a member of the IOC, said that ski jumping “seems...