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...once pitiable and funny, and wholly original - except for the uproarious tap-dancing Ku Klux Klan, a tribute to the prancing Nazis in Mel Brooks' The Producers. And that's just the first half. In Act Two Jerry goes to hell to counsel the ultimate dysfunctional family - Satan, Jesus and God - and is forced to confront his own role in people's lives. "We end with a message of peace and unity as glib, banal and yet utterly sincere as the TV show itself," says Lee. Legal problems with the producers of the real Jerry Springer Show look unlikely, since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera of the Absurd | 4/27/2003 | See Source »

...demand for multilateral talks about ending its nuclear-weapons program (even though Pyongyang promptly announced the program was proceeding). Even proud Iran was making conciliatory noises. The newspapers in Tehran were hot with argument over a proposed public referendum on whether to re-establish diplomatic relations with the Great Satan. The idea was floated by former President Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the cleverest politician in the country, one who has positioned himself between the reformers and the mullahs, with links to both camps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Make the Victory Stick | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

While Lowry’s literature is used in classrooms around the world, however, her work has not been immune to controversy. The Giver, imbued with political and religious implications, has also been deemed an invocation of Satan and has been banned in schools in California, Montana and Ohio. Lowry, when asked about the controversy surrounding this book, laughs and says, “I think there’s a website called ‘Lois Lowry is the antichrist.com’—I find it quite interesting...

Author: By Julia N. Bonnheim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lois Lowry Has The Answers | 4/17/2003 | See Source »

This is incredible. It seems Simmons’ (or Witz’s) real accomplishment was getting Gentiles to believe that he was actually some Satan-worshipping lunatic. Think KISS stands for “Knight In Satan’s Service?” It actually stands for “Kosher Israeli Scams Suckers...

Author: By David Weinfeld, | Title: The Mighty Morphin' State of Israel | 4/10/2003 | See Source »

That November, radical supporters seized the American embassy, provoking a 444-day confrontation with the "Great Satan" over 52 hostages. But Khomeini never was able to reconcile the widely divergent forces in his revolution. Top aides fled into exile or were executed, and thousands of other Iranians were imprisoned or killed. Iran became a deeply divided country and remains so today. Despite this, to Khomeini's neighbors in the Arab world the Ayatullah's revolution serves as a historical beacon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feb. 1, 1979: The Ayatullah's Return | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

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