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...think that's so good for the Olympics, is it?" She giggles some more, and her head scarf slips down, exposing thick auburn waves. Despite the fact that she is in a restaurant full of men, she leaves it there, too caught up in her own joke to notice. For Robina Muqimyar, Afghanistan's first woman to compete in the Olympics, this is all a game, an adventure that she would never have dreamed of three years ago, shut indoors by a repressive regime that barred women from walking the streets unless accompanied by a male relative - forget about permitting...
...kind of an expert on Open Mic nights. I went to a guitar camp for three summers and, before you make the tired American Pie joke, let me tell you it was much cooler than band camp, except for the fact that every night was Open Mic Night. All campers were invited to play. After about a hundred crappy renditions of “White Room” and “All Along the Watchtower,” I learned to stay away. Due to careful research at the events I did attend, though, I have determined that...
Superstar Jackie Chan usually avoids controversy as nimbly as he dodges flying fists. But when he commented recently on Taiwan's tumultuous presidential election, he executed an unrehearsed pratfall. Talking to reporters in Shanghai, Chan called the election "the biggest joke in the world." In Taiwan, Chan's remarks got supporters of President Chen Shui-bian to stop debating the poll results and focus on savaging Jackie instead. "Old people should retire," vented one furious participant on an Internet bulletin board. "Chan looks limp and wrinkled, lacking proper manners in his 50s." Wrote another: "He's an ignorant person making...
...Those weapons of mass destruction have to be here somewhere ... Nope, no weapons over there. Maybe under here ..." PRESIDENT BUSH, at a dinner for radio and TV correspondents, as he showed slides of himself looking under furniture in the White House--a joke that drew protests from Democrats and some family members of soldiers in Iraq...
...Munich; in fact, she felt crushed by expectation. "Anyone with any imagination ... might have seen that a 15-year-old girl from whom so much was expected could have used (some) help," she wrote in her 1999 autobiography, Tumble Turns - a massage perhaps, tips on diet, the occasional joke. Alas, well-meaning but unskilled Australian officials couldn't read the signs. Meanwhile, Gould's parents bore the financial costs of raising a champion...