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During his six terms, the city that was once the joke of New England has made MONEY magazine's lists of both the best places to live and the best places to retire. National Geographic Traveler has called it "a place you can't help but like." Utne Reader deemed it one of America's 10 most enlightened towns. Swing ranked it the best place to be an artist, and Girlfriends called it one of the best places to be a lesbian. Cianci is particularly proud of a renovation that saved a Colonial Revival mansion called the Casino from demolition...
...Everyone laughed, but it wasn't altogether a joke. The not so well-kept secret in Havana is that Castro, 75, has always been a fan of the 40-year-old U.S. trade embargo against his communist island. El bloqueo, as Cubans call the "blockade," has helped Castro deflect blame for his economic blunders. Whenever the U.S. has looked poised to end the embargo, Castro has managed to unleash an outrage that has kept it alive, as in 1996, when his air force shot down and killed four Cuban exiles from Miami flying unarmed small planes near Havana...
...Iraq to earn from limited exports of oil, has improved substantially over the past year. Electricity now runs 24 hours a day, at least in Baghdad. There is plenty of money too for Saddam's fantastic construction projects: giant mosques, more palaces and enough statues of him, goes the joke, to have one for each of Iraq's 24 million people. These grandiose projects are widely resented as a waste of money better spent on desperately needed housing. But the new mosques, at least, address a surging religious faith among dispirited Iraqis seeking escape from the bitter realities of daily...
...starts speaking in that lame, Madonna-ish, mid-Atlantic accent Losers DANIELLE STEEL Steamy novelist hogs 26 parking permits in cramped San Fran. The city may want to rethink policy of allotting spaces based on fabulousness ANN WINTERTON British Tory M.P. sacked from opposition post for telling an Asian joke. If this is a fireable offense, the Queen might need to find a new consort JASON KIDD NBA star loses out on league MVP. Let's take a moment and remember that before he became a New Jersey Net, he was a Phoenix Wife Beater...
...anyone who's ever had a pet knows, the joke's on us: animals - with the exception of all poodles and the occasional sissy hamster - are not absolutely controllable. We do maintain sway over cats and dogs, primarily because their social hierarchy allows us humans to neatly insert ourselves in the dominant position. But while domesticated pets have had much of the wild bred out of them, they are still, at heart, animals - something your dog or cat is happy to remind you of, with a sharp nip or bark, should you ever forget, and try, say, to dress little...