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...victorious Clinton: he named her his chief of staff, a post she held until 1990. Wright, whose reputation for political toughness belies a far softer interior, had some lonely years serving as the lightning rod for criticism of the Governor. In the late 1980s, she confided with a laugh, "I've made great progress here. When I came in, they hated me for being a woman. Now they only hate me for being the Governor's chief of staff." After a stint chairing the Arkansas Democratic Party, Wright drifted out of politics -- thereby avoiding the early shakedown months...
Some proctees are, indeed, mellow about the prospects, says Milan G. Chheda '93. But a few are intense. "They're so serious about it, it's kind of hard to laugh at it," he says. "It's scary...
Lead vocalist Mike Patton growls, screeches and roars his way through songs making not-so-subtle commentary on greed, complacency and selfishness. It's easy to laugh at the skewering of a thirtysomething character in the midtempo funk-rocker Midlife Crisis who derives her sense of security from her "pockets jingling" and is wrapped in "morbid self-attention...
Take Mikhail from St. Petersburg. A 42-year-old mathematician who taught in a high-level university for 18 years, he has been forced for the past year to sing for pennies on Jerusalem's pedestrian mall. Store-keepers shoo him away, passersby laugh at him. He cannot stand the shame of making a fool of himself before fellow Jews...
...always an easy laugh for stand-ups, and comedians would have a field day with some of Cohen's other merchandise. there's more giggling in Condom World than at a teenage slumber party...