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When Evita Bezuidenhout, South Africa's first lady of satire and sequins, decided to buy the old train station in the Afrikaner town of Darling and transform it into a dinner theater to perform her political cabarets, the residents were a little concerned. Since 1981 Evita Bezuidenhout (pronounced Bezaydenhote) had kept the nation crying - with laughter - as she used her sharp tongue to rip to shreds the apartheid government and all those who stood by it on TV, in South African theaters and on the London stage. Ten years on, however, Evita se Perron (Evita's Platform in Afrikaans...
...they all look like drag queens" - which Uys confesses was stolen by an M.P. from Parliament for Evita. But it's not all about the past. For up-to-the-minute satire, head outside to her Boerassic Park, where the garden gnomes include President Thabo Mbeki driving a "gravy train...
...unidentified man jumped onto the tracks in front of an oncoming subway train in the Harvard Square T stop yesterday evening, but managed to survive in what police are calling an attempted suicide...
According to Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) police Lieutenant Salvatore L. Venturelli, the man—whom he described as a Caucasian male in his fifties—jumped at approximately 7:30 p.m. in front of an outbound subway train...
...That February evening, however, Miyamoto was called upon to do something extraordinary. As he helped unlock the bicycle, a passerby rushed into his one-man koban to tell him that a woman was standing on the nearby train tracks. Miyamoto jogged over to the tracks and escorted the woman back to his police box, as she pulled against him and screamed that she wanted to die. When they made it back to the koban, the woman broke free and ran toward the rail crossing. With a train less than a quarter-mile away, Miyamoto leapt onto the tracks and tried...