Men and women

I can tell you why men and women can never get together, Doc. Each wants something completely different. A man wants a woman, a woman wants a man! Impossible!

Arthur, in Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (1953), act II. By Edward Chodorov.

Nancy Pelosi's unintended humor

From October 2006:

Though she is probably the second most lampooned woman in U.S. politics -- after Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) -- Pelosi is far from a household name. "I don't think most people know who I am," she says. 

That could change in one historic moment if Pelosi is pulled from the trenches and plopped into the spotlight. 

She sees it as an opportunity to change the culture of Washington. 

"I think the fact that I am a woman will raise expectations in terms of more hope in government, and I will not disappoint," she says. 

"The gavel of the speaker of the House is in the hands of special interests, and now it will be in the hands of America's children. I don't mean to imply my male colleagues will have any less integrity.... But I don't know that a man can say that as easily as a woman can."

Rick Rescorla, 9/11, and the 1993 WTC bombing

Rick Rescorla was chief of security for Morgan Stanley in the World Trade Center. He and his friend Dan Hill predicted the 1993 WTC bombing and 9/11.

After the bombing, Hill (who spoke Arabic and was a convert to Islam) visited many mosques in the New York area and across the Hudson in New Jersey. At the Turkish mosque in Patterson, everyone was friendly and pro-American and hoped the bombers weren't Muslims. From Heart of a Soldier by James B. Stewart (Simon and Schuster, 2002) (Google Books link):

But at every other mosque, Hill was struck by the intense anti-American hostility he encountered. Though these were not his own views, he barely had to mention that he thought American policy toward Israel and the Middle East was misguided, or that Jews wielded too much political power, to unleash a torrent of anti-American, anti-Semitic rhetoric. Many applauded the bombing of the WTC, lamenting that it hadn't done more damage. “Those are the towers of Jews”, he was told at several stops. Then his hosts quoted from the Koran [Sura 4:78]: “Wherever you are, death will overtake you, though you are in lofty towers in the sky.”

On 9/11/2001, Rescorla and his two lieutenants, Jorge Velasquez and Godwin Forde, were last seen in the South Tower on the 10th floor, heading upward, shortly before it collapsed at 9:59 A.M.