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...have harsh things to say about their leader too, if you ask them in a rare moment when they feel brave or unguarded enough to confide their true feelings. One unconfirmable tale making the rounds involves a kindergarten student who was asked by his teacher if he had seen Papa Saddam's speech on television the night before. After the boy replied, "No. When he comes on TV, my father always turns it off," the father went missing. Or so the tale goes. Still, some Iraqis seem genuinely worried that without a strongman like Saddam, Iraq could descend into violent...
Meanwhile, youngest daughter Kelly, glammed up and ready to debut her cover of Madonna's Papa Don't Preach at the MTV Movie Awards, is starting a music career. Like any good metal princess turned teen idol, Kelly is showily ambivalent, wearing a jacket that says POP STARS KISS MY BIG FAT A__, even though on her trendy, punk-lite new single, Shut Up, she sounds like Belinda Carlisle for the 21st century. Jack, the mellower Osbourne sib, thinks sis is getting too big for her crucifixes. During an argument, Kelly tells him, "I hope someone beats...
...Juan Antonio Toja. "It will probably mean the end for many families." Mending fishing nets with her sister, Nieves Charlín, another Laxe resident, mused that their husbands and brothers "won't be needing these for some time." Worried about making ends meet, Manuel Toja reflected sadly that "Papa No?l will not come to visit my daughter this year...
...ANGELES at the MTV Movie Awards, where she made her debut performing Papa Don't Preach...
...bridge across the Tsavo River. Joined by a rotating cast of biologists, local tribesmen and scary big-game hunters, Caputo heads into the African scrub to find the lions. This is darkest Hemingway country--the ghost of Francis Macomber haunts every page--but Caputo is blessedly free of Papa's ego. He's not afraid to describe an unsuccessful spear-throwing lesson with a Masai warrior or the distinctly un-Hemingwayesque experience of passing out from taking too much malaria medicine. He also tells us a few things Papa never did--like how, exactly, a lion eats a human being...