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...details were puzzling. Why would Sunni insurgents, who generally favor stand-off tactics like suicide bombings, mortar attacks and roadside bombs, make a target of themselves by massing hundreds of fighters deep in the Shi'a heartland? Why would Shi'a militias, which thrive on the support of the towns and neighborhoods from which they spring, stake a claim to a patch of farmland outside Najaf...
There are a few ways of reading that response. You could call it apathy, although Silverman cares about being funny. You could call it a kind of blasé postfeminism--What is this, like, 1973?--although Silverman's stand-up has always had a strong woman's consciousness. Or you could just call it confidence, which Silverman, 36, has every reason to feel. For more than a decade, she has been known as a comic's comic for her demurely provocative stage act--captured in the 2005 movie Jesus Is Magic--in which she delivers jokes about AIDS, race, the Holocaust...
...show lets the confession that she can't cry hang there without elaboration, but it suggests a pathos to the character that goes beyond pee jokes. "In music or poetry or movies, I'm a fan of heartbreak," Silverman says. "I think most of my stand-up is either silly, gratuitous bathroom humor or is heartbreaking, if you break it down by subject matter...
...September 1985, the London government filed suit in an Australian court to prevent release of the memoir. So far, the testimony of government witnesses in the case has been embarrassingly inconsistent. British Cabinet Secretary Sir Robert Armstrong has admitted that he was "economical with the truth" on the stand. The defense also noted that British officials allowed Journalist Chapman Pincher to publish a book in 1981 that contained similar material...
...come from teachers; they come from society and our peers. We are influenced by the media's portrayal of sex as being glamorous and by the opinions of other teenagers. The best thing teachers can do is give us the biological facts, teach us about sexually transmitted diseases, then stand back and let us make our own decisions. Janet J.K. Jones Toledo...