Ms. Parody quickly debunked that.

Here's my parody and it ain't much of one.

What we want is for schools to have the tools to resolve conflicts, Ms. Parody said in an interview on Thursday.

Critics of the government and the peace talks pounced on Ms. Parody, a 42 year old rising star in Colombian politics.

Ms. Parody remained admirably stoic throughout the bruising week as she sought to set the record straight and recast the debate on constructive terms.

To me, it's critical that they can be at ease and that they realize that they can reach their full potential, Ms. Parody said.

But the Harvard Lampoon is about to come out with a parody of National Geographic, and I shudder to think what they're going to do to this photograph.

Ten Years Later, with its adults now playing adults, is less emotionally rooted and its parody more scattershot, including a riff on '90s stalker flicks like The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.

This week, though, their fight for equality hit an obstacle as Gina Parody, the minister of education who is openly gay became the flashpoint of a scandal over the implementation of the ruling.

A few years ago, the Marlboro Man was retired and replaced by this much less impressive specimen, who is a parody of American manhood, and that's what we have in our commercials today.

Satirist Tom Rielly delivers a wicked parody of the 2006 TED conference, taking down the 100 laptop, the plight of the polar bear, and people who mention, one too many times, that they work at Harvard. Watch for a special moment between Tom and Al Gore.

To meet these criteria would require convening interested countries in order to gain greater insight into both internal Syrian and regional implications of military action. The attention devoted to the Syrian issue during the non aligned countries recent Tehran summit was a parody of such an exercise.

There are stories, unverifiable but plausible, that 20 or more of Hun Sen s closest associates have each amassed more than 1 billion through misappropriation of state assets, illegal economic activity, and favoritism in state procurement and contracting. There has also been political patronage bordering on parody, with one recent count putting the government s size at 244 ministers and secretaries of state.

In order to compensate for its growing inferiority complex, Russia has cobbled together the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which, by its title and constitutional principles, is a parody of NATO. For all this, the Kremlin is not in the least embarrassed by the fact that the CSTO is essentially a mechanical connection of bilateral military agreements between Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Russia.