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...gotten harder to be funny as you've gotten older? You get less flexible or something as you get older. Also, when you're 67, as I am - which is hard for me to believe - you basically just feel bad all the time. Anybody who claims not to feel bad when they're 67 is lying. But if you felt good all the time, there wouldn't be any point in being funny. There are lots of people who have stayed funny into their senility. If you can just stay funny till you're dotty, that means you've made...
...home of the longest-running humor magazine and the original campus ham-radio station, age doesn’t usually go out of style. So too for staff members—Harvard finished among the country’s top employers for older workers in a list released last Tuesday...
According to an article released with the list, Harvard’s strengths include extensive healthcare benefits for all its faculty, options for older faculty to “catch up” on 403(b) investing plans, and a workforce that is 30 percent over 50 years of age. On average, these older employees have been working for the University for almost 16 years, according to the AARP...
...effort to expose, in the words of director Larry Charles, “the hilarious logic” at the core of organized religion. The situations and subjects portrayed consistently reveal the creepy state of denial in which religious leaders settle themselves; they refuse to acknowledge both older and more modern challenges to faith that Maher forces them to confront in an age when religion is the cause of so much turmoil, so much war, and, let’s face it, so much awkward porn. (Note: “Religulous” is rated R, and includes footage...
...undeniable that John Paul II, who referred to Jews as Christians' "older brothers" and was the first Pope to visit a synagogue, has built a bridge in Catholic-Jewish relations that remains solid. Benedict appreciates the importance of that bridge, but he has also shown a tendency to forge ahead with what he thinks is right for his church. In diplomatic terms, perhaps the cause for sainthood for a still controversial Nazi-era pontiff could use a somewhat longer "period of reflection." And maybe a Pope from another country. - With reporting by Francesco Peloso / Rome