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Despite the talk, Manny Ramirez will not hit .400, Albert Pujols will not hit 70 homeruns, Pedro Martinez will not get 30 wins, and the New York Yankees will win this year’s World Series after dealing worthless prospects for four free agent-to-be superstars at the trade deadline...
...Britain: If the heart doth lead the way, the Windsors are allowed to bespouse equines, badgers or pit bulls Monaco: Stephanie is eternally consigned to the circus. Prince Albert-in-a-can jokes are strictly verboten The Netherlands: All members of the bicycle-loving royal family are given free examinations for testicular cancer Spain: Dashing princes are required to wed dim, tanned-all-over Scandinavian models Italy: The royal family, exiled since 1946, are allowed to return to their thrones?provided they can spawn and install heirs as frequently as Rome produces Prime Ministers Thailand: No male may surgically transform...
...entertaining a deep desire to change. Princess Mathilde of Belgium, for example, has a royal bun in the oven and if she delivers a girl, new laws would allow the child to become the first sovereign Queen of the Belgians. (And she wouldn't have to be named Albert.) Bulgaria's King Simeon Borisov Saxe-Coburg, forced from the throne in 1946 at the age of nine, is running for parliament and could conceivably become Prime Minister?and maybe King once more. In Japan last week, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced he was in favor of ditching a centuries...
Putnam, the president-elect of the American Political Science Foundation for 2001-2002, will join the NAS' ranks of a number of Nobel Prize winners, including Albert Einstein and James Watson...
There are a few minor glitches on Inauguration Day as inclement weather scuttles the new President's plan to ride in a solar-powered limousine and interior decorators protest his plans to install hemp drapes in the Oval Office. But Albert Gore Jr. has finally achieved the office for which he has been groomed all his life. Gone is the awkward campaigner. In his place is the relaxed, witty man who aides and family members always insisted was the "real" Al Gore...