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...BRITAIN Members' Benefits British legislators voted to allow Sinn Fein's four Members of Parliament to claim expense payments and office space even though the republicans cannot take their seats in the House of Commons because they refuse to swear allegiance to the Queen. The Conservatives and Northern Ireland's unionists opposed the move, branding it an unwarranted concession to the I.R.A.'s political wing...
...swear, anyone who counts in the Taliban is either missing an eye, a hand or a leg, or is barely old enough to have grown a beard. This all-powerful vizier, named Tayab Agha, was 25. The Kandahar police chief is the same age, and I've heard that he roars around in a brand new Hi-Lux with a Metallica sticker on the hood. (He got his job a few years back pulling Mullah Omar out of the rubble after truck bomb exploded outside his house.) Maybe now, when his Islamic caliphate is collapsing around...
...sweeping melody of “Harry’s Wondrous World” smacks of the closing theme from 1980’sThe Empire Strikes Back, also by Williams. And the eerie holiday vibe of “Visit to the Zoo” will make you swear that you’re listening to Williams’s soundtrack from 1990’s Home Alone...
Take the free massage I got Tuesday afternoon in Microsoft's Marriott Mecca (I was waiting for interviews, I swear). It was all going so well until the masseuse finished up with the words "and that's your pat on the back from Microsoft." It could not have been a creepier moment if I'd turned round to discover it was Bill Gates with the magic fingers...
...short porch in right field. He rounded the bases at 12:04 a.m. with the second and decisive homer. Double shots at midnight. Oh, the Babe would have loved that one. So would Mickey. Over the PA system Sinatra started singing ?New York, New York? and you?d swear they were all going to meet at Toots Shors in the wee small hours...