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...some extent, the hilariously disparate body types of Gervais, Merchant, and Pilkington lend themselves to caricature. They are a strange tableau: the lumbering six-foot-seven Merchant, the squat Gervais, the round-headed Pilkington. Most reviews liken Gervais’s avatar to Fred Flintstone, but I believe the real similarity here is to Comedy Central’s mercifully short-lived “Shorties Watchin’ Shorties” (you know a show’s good when its title prescriptively drops the gerund “g”), which animated clips of stand-up comedy...
...philosophy exam in college that left me whimpering at its wicked simplicity: "Could the number two change its properties?" I'd been raised to think numbers were as close to reliable as anything could be, so clean and clear and immune to argument. Some are odd, some round, some lucky, but three will always be one less than four...
Admissions officers hoisted box after box of decision letters—2,110 acceptances and over 28,000 rejections and waitlist letters—into the back of a waiting mail truck yesterday, then celebrated the completion of this year’s first round of decisions...
...before she had a chance to settle in, Martinez was hit by the first round of layoffs...
...Russia, which the Administration has touted as a convert to the punish-Iran coalition, has in fact not changed its position from the last round of sanctions: Moscow supports penalties only against companies involved directly in the proliferation business. "Sanctions must be directed exclusively on the resolution of nonproliferation tasks and not aimed at the financial and economic suffocation of this country," said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko late last month. Such sanctions have failed until now, and Washington wants new measures to raise the cost in economic pain for the Tehran regime's defiance. But so far there...