Word: newt
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...persona of Ali G, Baron Cohen has interviewed myriad famous figures, including former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and former United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, asking him to translate expletives into French, and throwing superfluous “Boutros”’s into the conversation...
...soil before Sept. 11. Did President Bill Clinton take responsibility--let alone apologizefor Oklahoma City? No. In fact, he laid the dead at the feet of "loud and angry voices in America today," joining a chorus of liberals in blaming the bombing on the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich for allegedly encouraging militias...
...before Sept. 11. Did President Bill Clinton take responsibility - let alone apologize for Oklahoma City? No. In fact, he laid the dead at the feet of "loud and angry voices in America today," joining a chorus of liberals in blaming the bombing on the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich for allegedly encouraging militias...
...show's discredit, it used a cast almost entirely of white-bread heteros to guide us through all that otherness.) In January 1996, when Ross's ex-wife married her lesbian lover, the episode raised scant controversy, and most of that because Candace Gingrich--the lesbian sister of Newt, then Speaker of the House--presided over the ceremony. "This is just another zooey episode of the justifiably popular Friends," yawned USA Today. Sure, sitcoms like Roseanne had introduced gays earlier--but it's not as though that had rendered gay marriage uncontroversial, then or now. The bigger difference...
FEMALES SCORNED When males are in short supply, females can become fierce competitors. Female house sparrows and great reed warblers, whose males often take two mates, may try to smash a rival's eggs. Unattached smooth newt females will steal a male's sperm packet just as he deposits it for his mate. Midwife toads are even more proactive: jealous females will tear copulating couples asunder...