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...challenges of a new term and a brand-new executive board may not leave Rhew with much to laugh about, but the former services committee chair is used to working hard for the council...
...council owes an apology to the students who attended the show. It is unconscionable that a representative body would allow these comics to degrade women, gays and minorities. How did the members think that a Harvard audience would respond to this kind of humor? Did they think it would laugh at such blatant bigotry...
...Cerf's words, the quick laugh category consists of those sequels whose title provides almost the entire joke. Examples of this genre include "2000: A Space Illiad," "Pride and Extreme Prejudice" and "The Library of Yiddish Sequels." Presented as a spoof of pretentious book collections, the "Yiddish Sequels" page contains some of this book's most memorable one-liners. Among the 80 titles: "Oy, Wilderness," "Two Gentile Men of Verona" and "To His Goy Mistress...
Looking back on the West Point years, Norm's old friends still marvel at his single-minded ambition. "He saw himself as a successor to Alexander the Great, and we didn't laugh when he said it," recalls retired General Leroy Suddath, another former roommate. "Norm's favorite battle was Cannae," says Suddath, in which Hannibal in 216 crushed the forces of Rome. "It was the first real war of annihilation, the kind Norman wanted to fight." He desperately wanted to lead his country's forces into a major battle. "We'd talk about these things in the wee hours...
...shall spend his life trying to impress the 'natives,' and so in every crisis he has got to do what the 'natives' expect of him . . . To come all that way, rifle in hand, and then to trail feebly away, having done nothing -- no, that was impossible. The crowd would laugh at me." George Bush "has drawn his rifle," says Ajami. "He cannot back down...