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While the edge hasn’t gone from the Onion, in some places it may be too sharp for good taste. Headlines such as “Fun Toy Banned Because of Three Stupid Dead Kids” and “Loved Ones Recall Local Man’s Cowardly Battle With Cancer,” provoke that horrible smirk-shudder reaction, and the book might be better had they been left...
...Thatcher levels of spending and taxation. TIME: Is it true you're obsessed with Napoleon? BLACK: Absolutely not. He was a great general, but I have more admiration for Abraham Lincoln or Franklin Roosevelt. It's like all these stupid theories written about me that say I play with toy soldiers. That's a load of you know what. TIME: When can we expect Hollinger's stock to go up? BLACK: A lot of companies, such as the one you write for, have taken a worse hit. Hollinger is undervalued. We're eliminating debt, and the facts will speak...
...woman. Maybe it's simple racism. Or maybe it's just that the Williams sisters, as good as they are, are kind of arrogant and aloof and unfocused on tennis. "People criticize me as being arrogant," Venus said last Monday during a tournament in New Haven, Conn., her toy Yorkshire popping out of her Kate Spade bag. "Maybe because I'm a little smarter than the others. Maybe it's because when they ask me a silly question, I refuse to answer it and make myself look foolish." There is a lot of silence at Williams sisters' press conferences...
...campaigners for far-right links. SPAIN ETA Suspects Held Police arrested 13 suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA but said those held were not thought to be linked to a spate of recent bombings, including one at a tourist hotel in Salou or a boobytrapped toy that killed a woman and blinded her 10-month-old grandson. Interior Minister Mariano Rajoy blamed ETA's youth wing for this instance of kale barroka (street violence), while police connected those arrested to at least 12 political killings. UNITED STATES Mr. Stuntman, Meet Miss Liberty French paraglider Thierry Devaux dangled precariously...
...January, 1993, I went to dinner in Washington with a group of media types. I sat next to a well known columnist and television talking head whom I have always thought of as the Beaking Bird: With his alert, black-button eyes and his sharp nose, he resembles that toy perpetual-motion bird forever bobbing, like a metronome, on the rim of a glass and dipping its beak, quite pointlessly, in the water...