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JEAN ("I'M NOT A CRETIN") CHRETIEN OCCUPATION: Canadian Prime Minister BEST PUNCH: Nixed Black's bid for a seat in the British House of Lords with a 1919 document asking U.K. monarchs not to confer titles on Canadians...
CONRAD ("IN THE") BLACK OCCUPATION: Canadian media mogul BEST PUNCH: Sued Chretien, whom his papers have sharply criticized for years, for $16,000, citing among other things "abuse of public office...
...hate relationship with Hollywood and the media; we've supported Beavis and Butt-head's meta-media sarcasm and David Letterman's roasting of TV bigs. It's a short step from a late-night joke about CBS chief Les Moonves to the name dropping that has become easy punch-line fodder on even bland fare like Movie Stars ("Any movie where you throw Jeff Goldblum down a flight of stairs is a good movie"). These references flatter us by confirming that we're the sort of hipsters who would knowingly chuckle at them, that we're the quality audience...
NAME: Jay Leno OCCUPATION: Could-be Jack Paar BEST PUNCH: Finding Fenger's calls unreasonable, Leno labeled her a "psycho-woman" and declared "[Keyes], in my opinion, probably has the worst staff representing him. That's why [he's] doing so poorly in the polls...
RESISTANCE REDUX It's happening again. The newest class of antibiotics, called fluoroquinolones, may be losing its punch. A huge study in Canada concludes that 5% of S. pneumoniae bacteria--a common bug responsible for pneumonia and meningitis--may be resistant to fluoroquinolones. Doctors had hoped that because fluoroquinolones, unlike previous antibiotics, are synthetic, bacteria wouldn't be able to outsmart them...