Word: suckers
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...some sympathizers wonder if Dong Nam is being targeted not because it was unusually corrupt but because its owners lost the support of patrons within the government who had previously looked away. After all, tax evasion is so pervasive in Vietnam, says Thai, that he's been called a "sucker" for bothering to pay them. In Thieu's neighborhood, people don't much care whether he's guilty or not. As one gleeful local puts it: "Everyone hopes police will seize all their property." So much for loving thy neighbor...
Toby Keith's Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American) hauls out every cliche from both the pop country canon and the Rush Limbaugh guide to foreign policy. Keith sees America as the world's "big dog," and he has a message for those who "sucker punch" us: "You'll be sorry that you messed with the U.S. of A./ 'Cause we'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way." It's the catchiest song about vengeance since The Caissons Go Rolling Along...
...Some readers were saddened but not surprised by the best-selling popularity of the Left Behind series of books, which is based on the Book of Revelation. "It just proves the old saying that there's a sucker born every minute," declared a Tennessean. A fellow Volunteer Stater paraphrased H.L. Mencken: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people." But spying a ray of sunshine in the rumors of impending doom, a sports-minded Californian quipped, "The world is coming to an end? The Chicago Cubs must have won the World Series...
LITTLE BIG SHOT Are you a sucker for multipurpose gadgets? Try this one on for size. It's a four-in-one digital camcorder, camera, MP3 player and voice recorder from Panasonic. The SV-AV10 ($449) can store 30 min. of MPEG-4 video or 880 digital stills on a single 64-MB memory card and display them on a 2-in. flip-out LCD screen. The whole thing is not much bigger than a deck of cards...
...upfronts! The one glorious week a year when the major networks unveil their fall schedules at grand self-celebrations around Manhattan, then throw lavish parties for the marketing executives they want to sucker into buying ads. Dozens of new TV programs are unveiled here each year -comedies, dramas, specials, reality shows. It's like Christmas all week -albeit a Christmas where you know 90% of your presents will suck, and most will end up, unloved and barely used, in the garbage scant weeks after they're opened...