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These stories are all either true or based on fact, but when Sedaris writes about his own family he seems not to resist satire by caricature. No one could be as loopy as his Greek grandmother Ya-Ya. Surely no one's father was ever ruled by such morbid paranoia. Do children of eight and 10 really get hold of a smutty book and then walk around chirping "tight willin' gasshole...
Available soon in the jazz-to-die-for genre, A Very Still Life, a CD featuring the work of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Don't expect "horribly morbid stuff," warns Resist Records owner Chad Williams, who says Kevorkian's compositions are "upbeat." Backed by the Morpheus Quintet, the doctor improvises on flute. Some of the proceeds, if any, will fund an assisted-suicide clinic...
...couple of days for the bad guys. First, in an update of the old file-baked-in-a-cake ploy, Florida prisoner Gregory WIlliamson got out of jail when his girlfriend faxed a faked pardon to prison authorities. He was caught a week later when he couldn?t resist trying the same trick to spring his former cellmate. Apparently Williamson and his girlfriend were planning to go national: When they were arrested in her apartment, police found computers and disks containing official seals for state offices across the country. Meanwhile, Memphis teenager Brandon Hughes exhibited breathtakingly bad judgement when...
...some 2,000 ethnic Tutsi living in eastern Zaire and trained them with his army. In October, when the Hutu persuaded local Zairian authorities in the Kivu provinces to expel all ethnic Tutsi from Zaire, Kagame ordered his commandos back into Zaire. The alliance of Zairian Tutsi rose to resist the edict, and Zaire's notoriously undisciplined army turned and fled. Within two weeks, the rebels had seized a swatch of eastern Zaire 600 miles long...
Invariably, the horoscope page was open (who can resist those augurs of the future?). The introduction piqued my Marxist curiosity and seemed strangely timely, so--with a little extension to make it Harvard appropriate--Dartboard thought it was worth sharing...