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...them, but they had their reasons for greenlighting them. One is that they often made money. Another is that the mood of the country was more pious. Today, a fervent Christian conviction-so often aligned with belligerent conservatism-is, to many in the media, a threat or a joke. They don't understand religious devotion, at least in the less attractive sense of the term. They are much more comfortable producing anti-religious entertainment (all the comedies that make mock of God, Jesus and the clergy) than some sweet sappy Nun's Story...
...like life anywhere—complicated, difficult, often mundane and very real. Familiar social realities persist even in a war zone. The life of the average soldier is very much a blue-collar grind. These men and women work long, hard hours, earn low pay and eat, sleep, joke, flirt and live like most Americans...
...ESPN finished eighth yesterday placing three positions higher than Bill Clinton and eight ahead of Wesley Clark in the men’s open division of the Crash-B Sprints World Indoor Rowing Championship held in Boston. The names may lead you to believe this is some sort of joke, but the collegiate rowers who take part in this world championship see it as a tradition...
...held a lot of stuff back, he wasn’t very open about a lot of things,” she said. “He would selectively have short responses to certain types of questions, he was sort of evasive about certain questions. He would joke things off rather than giving you a straightforward answer...
...land of deepest night, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness” (Job 10: 21-22). In other words, he will return to Vermont and resume the mundane existence that had been so suddenly and deliberately interrupted by this mean cosmic joke...