Birbiglia tells this story in his new comic monologue, "Thank God for Jokes" (in previews at the Lynn Redgrave Theatre, opening Feb. 11), in which he weighs the ever-present dangers of going too far with humor.
Hagel has that quality of going beyond plausibility to believability, possibly to a fault (in that it sometimes comes with a senatorial tendency to tell you more than you wanted to know; a related liability is that he likes to write his own speeches, which he weighs down with lessons of history and high-minded quotations from his reading, as if he feels a need to show how studious he is).
He led a campaign against obesity in which he was weighed publicly once a month at health fairs as he shed 27 pounds; the newspaper El Diario ran before-and-after pictures of him on its Sept. 28 cover.
With Syrians already dying by the thousands from conventional weapons, Mr. Obama now confronts the most urgent foreign policy issue of his second term, one in which he must weigh humanitarian impulses against the risk to American lives.
The plane, which he said "weighs less than a small car", will fly at 60,000ft (twice the height of commercial airliners) and be able to stay airborne for several months at a time.
But converting them to paying customers has proved difficult, which, he said, will weigh on any public offering.
James Sullivan, a marine mammal stranding technician, said there was no immediate evidence of trauma on the dolphin, which he believed to weigh about 150 pounds.
Planning meticulously and forewarning each curator of his intentions, he gained access to instruments, often lying undisplayed in storerooms, which he handled, measured, weighed, photographed, described and drew.
But still it feels sad to say goodbye to the play kitchen, where he used to play, and to the produce scales inside on which he was once weighed.
Mainly, however, O'Neill is concerned over the pervasive influence that the oil industry has on all sector of governance -- which he predicts will weigh heavily on the legal process.
"He sometimes dips into an alarming reverie in which he is either carefully weighing his words or napping".
