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...Kampuchea's Communist Party, from the government, apparently for trying to chart a political course independent of Viet Nam. The Soviet Ambassador in Hanoi made his displeasure known at the government New Year's party by refusing to take his designated seat next to Foreign Minister Hun Sen. A long, embarrassing silence followed, until a quick-thinking Bulgarian plopped into the empty chair...
...following addressed you by name: Surf (the lifeguard), Hun (the policeman), Marvin (the village idiot), Red (of Red's Peach Stand...
Listening to Hun tell you about the day the noon siren went...
...there they go-the summer memories faded almost completely now as the brain, restored, readies itself for the lions in winter. Goodbye, local peaches. Goodbye, Hun. Goodbye, Red. So the earth rolls reluctantly away from heaven, not to return for ten marvelous months. -By Roger Rosenblatt
...guilty of sins even more grievous than wearing brown shoes with a blue suit. The envelope, please. In chronological order: Caligula, despotic Emperor of Rome from A.D. 37 to 41; Nero, full-time Emperor and sometime violinist who struck sour notes in Rome from 54 to 68; Attila the Hun, who led his barbaric tribe from 433 to 453; Ivan the Terrible, nogoodnik Tsar of Russia from 1547 to 1584; Catherine de Medicis, Machiavelli-mentored Queen of France from 1547 to 1589 and noted butcher of Protestants; Abdul-Hamid II, murderous ruler of the Ottoman Empire from...