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...mean, Mom, it's just there for sex ed. demonstrations I give for the kids I tutor over in Central Square. I just put it on a banana...
RELEASED. CANAAN BANANA, 64, ex-President of Zimbabwe, after serving a jail term for sodomy; in Harare. A Methodist minister and professor of theology, Banana committed the acts while serving a seven-year term as titular President after the nation gained independence in 1980. Convicted on 11 counts of sodomy, Banana was released after serving eight months of a one-year sentence, getting time off for good behavior...
...even the closest and most imaginative reading of Nostradamian Centuries or Revelatory verse could have warned Americans that their 2000 presidential election would turn from democratic contest to banana-republic farce. No horoscope foretold the rise of the dotcom companies and the creation of overnight billionaires - and if there was one that warned of the dotcom collapse it clearly was not heeded by the vast majority of investors today sitting, forlorn, on their devalued shares. That does not prevent the Internet from buzzing with Nostradamus' apparent predictions of a divided election and the rise of "the village idiot...
...billion season for dot-commerce. But that about does it for retail celebrations. Federated Department Stores Inc., of Macy's and Bloomingdale's fame, said December sales would fall short of its original forecasts, and the forecasts weren't that high to start with. Specialty stores like Gap and Banana Republic are disappointed. And if you want to know what PC sales have been like, check the NASDAQ...
...were trying to divine the real meaning of 2000, I'd turn to the Today show, where, on the same morning that James Baker appears, trying his level best to look like a principled human being, a Latvian chef will also teach us how to stuff a banana with rabbit, and someone will announce that in the next half-hour we'll talk about a new cure for Parkinson's disease..."plus, live from the plaza--Jewel!" That's history for you. That's Bruegel's Icarus, as Auden pointed out in his poem on the painting; sensational events mingle...