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...from clear how strong the evidence is against the couple. Robert Murat, a resident of Praia da Luz, was named an arguido at the start of the investigation but has protested his innocence and has never faced any charges. Press reports in Portugal and the U.K. have suggested that new forensic evidence may finally provide stronger clues about what might have happened to Madeleine. Yet false leads and dashed hopes have characterized the investigation almost from the start. Philomena McCann, the sister of Gerry McCann, told Britain's Sky News that the Portuguese police were suggesting that her sister...
...couple's daughter Madeleine went missing in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz, apparently abducted from her bed after the parents - both 39-year-old doctors - left the three-year-old and her siblings unattended to dine with friends nearby. Since then, the McCanns have spearheaded a high-profile international campaign to find Madeleine. They have traveled across Europe and to the U.S., attended an audience with the Pope and roped in celebrities such as footballers David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo to keep the case in the public eye and encourage the police to redouble their efforts to find...
...phonograph, or read long passages from The Great Gatsby, or assume the guise of obnoxious Tony Clifton, all to the discomfort of an audience who might have come to hear jokes. Metrano donned a tux and sang, endlessly, the old razzmatazz "Fine and Dandy," but only the notes: "Da da DA da, da Da da DA DA..." Squirms outnumbered giggles; perplexity ensued. If someone asked, "Is that supposed to be funny?" the comics had achieved their goal...
...paper revealed more shocking historical secrets than The Da Vinci Code. It informed us that the seer Nostradamus had an idiot brother, Nostradumbass. One cover story declared that President Lincoln was actually a woman. The headline: "Abe Was a Babe!" In its approach to modern political issues, the paper was always pro-alien - Martians, not Mexicans...
...assured. Hence politics in South Africa is increasingly consumed by the chance of Zuma becoming President - and discussion of who might stop him. The prospect of a Zuma presidency fills South Africa's élite with dread. He is the target of the country's most syndicated cartoon strip, Da Zuma Code, which depicts him as a ruthless dunderhead. Editorials and letters in the middle-class press paint Zuma as a potential African strongman in the mold of so much of postcolonial Africa to the north, with some white commentators advising selling up and leaving should he take power...