Willi Chevalier of Germany is a world champion

in the 'freestyle beard' category. Next year, he plans

to enter the more difficult 'backstroke beard' competition.

Flanking the President, Ed Lazear, chairman of the

Council of Economic Advisers, and Al Hubbard, director

of the National Economic Council, showed on their faces

why economists are often thought to be dismal scientists.

Representative Weldon's Army of Curt received

some good news yesterday. A new regulation will

ban chronic snorers from enlisting, so recruits can

now look forward to getting a good night's sleep.

The dog refused to look at Picasso's

Dora Maar with Cat.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is so proud of her

country that she wears its flags wherever she goes.

The U. S. Air Force has just released this picture

of a prototype of the next generation of tactical

fighters. According to its developers, this supersonic

aircraft will incorporate the latest in still-classified

'sucker technology'. The idea seems to be that

potential enemies will be duped into thinking,

"fish can't fly," and will ignore it until it's too late.

Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman did not

take kindly to being called "a wholly-owned

subsidiary of ExxonMobil."