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...sounds like a downer. But Chekov is also known for his sense of humor. How do you incorporate that element into a tragedy...

Author: By Benjamin D. Margo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Connecting with Dot: | 11/9/2001 | See Source »

...American flag lapel pins for the “Update” anchors, flag backgrounds on the interstitial hosts’ portraits, a flag in the opening credits—but they, as reminders of how the U.S. has changed, only underline how little SNL’s humor...

Author: By Ben C. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Live From NYC | 11/9/2001 | See Source »

...weary as some staffers may be there is at least one who has a sense of humor. Wednesday's party will feature a band called Nailing Jello. When someone who plans to attend heard the name he quipped: "Are they trying to remind us of how hard it is to fight the Taliban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nailing Jello | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...That would be a loss. Hawking takes on plenty of intimidating topics in Nutshell, including space-time geometry, quantum mechanics and the ominously titled M-theory. But he does it in a much more accessible way this time, using plenty of comprehensible analogies and no small amount of humor, often self-deprecating. Example: "Newton occupied the Lucasian chair at Cambridge that I now hold, though it wasn't electrically operated in his time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beyond The Theoretical | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...vague bulletin to California's detailed advisory-left many people feeling quite the opposite: confused, afraid and in some cases downright angry. "We're drinking all the coffee we can," Tela Mange, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said with a large dose of black humor. "How alert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Measuring the Threat | 11/4/2001 | See Source »

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