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...Hodgman '86 of the Harvard Lampoon claimed no knowledge of the alternate Lampoon. "I'm sure they're a fun bunch of guys," he said. He then showed that famous dry Lampoon wit by adding, "We'll be fire-bombing their office soon...
Rocard, an economist, is a member of the Socialist Party steering committee and mayor of a Paris suburb called Conflans-Ste.-Honorine. Widely admired for his wit and personal charm, he is one of the country's most popular politicians, regularly topping the opinion polls with about a 55% approval rating on general leadership ability. Not only is he far in front of Mitterrand's 38%, but he also leads Premier Fabius, 39, and former Premier Raymond Barre, 61, the most popular conservative opposition figure, both of whom draw some 50%. Rocard, whose standing among the Socialist rank and file...
...sure why we did it," said Peter S. Lee '86, one of the stars. "In the name of wit and humor, I guess. We wouldn't do it again. It really wasn't funny, even though I believe the Holy Cross side seemed to cheer at the time...
...savage put-downs of those near by. It is hard for an audience to laugh at Iceman without feeling it is further belittling these shriveled lives. Indeed, during a tryout at the Kennedy Center in Washington, spectators seemed to respond to the play's bleakness, not its raucous wit...
...three months in office, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze has charmed the diplomatic world with his openness and self-effacing wit. His kindly eyes and unruly silver mane project an image that is radically different from that of his fastidious, poker-faced predecessor, Andrei Gromyko. But like his boss, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shevardnadze is a shrewd, tough-minded politician with steel beneath his smile. Some Sovietologists last summer assumed that Shevardnadze, with his minimal foreign policy experience, would serve simply as a stand-in while Gorbachev acted as his own chief diplomat. Yet Shevardnadze has shown a readiness to take charge...