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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Uday?s newspapers, Babil, today quoted President Clinton in a front-page lead as saying it was time to lift sanctions against Iraq. On page two, the newspaper admitted the report was "only an April Fools' joke. It is the beginning of spring. Many happy returns." Uday was once sentenced to death by his own father for clubbing to death one of the family?s retainers, and is alleged to have been involved in the killing of his own brother-in-law. In other words, when he makes a joke, it?s a good idea to laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Killing Joker | 4/1/1998 | See Source »

Remember Mother Nature's April Fool's joke last year? Twenty-seven inches of snow in 11 hours. The Law School shut down for the day for the first time in 18 years. A hapless tutor's car was crushed by an uprooted tree in front of Eliot House. As undergraduates returning from the sunny climes of the Bahamas and Cancun groaned and grumbled, you could almost hear the old lady chuckling in anticipation of future pranks. Well, have no fear, she mistimed it this year--the last-gasp-of-winter blizzard came a week earlier this time, when...

Author: By Kaustuv Sen, | Title: Reader Representative | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...also--what are the right words? Horrible? Disgusting? It is disgusting because it parades real people before the mob as objects of ridicule. Of course, Springer says the show is "silly" and "outrageous" and a "cultural cartoon" and so shouldn't be taken too seriously. "Most people get the joke," says Steve Rosenberg, president of TV distribution for USA. "It's crazy and funny, like World Wrestling." He is quick to add that there's nothing fake about it--and that's exactly the problem. The Jerry Springer Show is like pro wrestling, except that the eye gougings, physical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Talking Trash | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...state dinner tonight, Mandela will present Clinton with South Africa?s highest honor, the Order of Good Hope. Of course the joke may be on Clinton, since Mandela awarded the same medal to that man Ghaddafi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Apologies From Mandela | 3/27/1998 | See Source »

FIRST DOG BUDDY Clinton to have him castrated. Is this the setup or the joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 23, 1998 | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

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