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...Shortest Petrol Queue, Pretend You're a Ruling Party Member to Get Food - to pay attention to this one. But there may be a way to get everyone out to the cricket ground. "We might spread a rumor that there's going to be free food," says one local wag. "Then we'll have the whole town there." Six World Cup matches are slated for Zimbabwe, but the British government (unlike its cricket officials) has led calls for a boycott of its imploding ex-colony. Zimbabwe has already lost its reputation as southern Africa's breadbasket, its once-vaunted economic...
Because of the timing of the al Shifa controversy—in the midst of the Monica Lewinsky scandal—the serious threat of chemical weapons was ignored in favor of “wag the dog” coverage, Benjamin said...
...can’t let the tail wag the dog,” she said. “We must do what’s best for our undergraduates...
...baggy eyes and slightly depressed air, is perfect as the harassed auteur of his own misery. And writer-director Andrew Nicoll is a visually witty operative with a nice ear for the verbal side of Hollywood lunacy as well. Sure, Simone will put you in mind of Wag the Dog, in which the darker political consequences of fooling around with Mother Nature were stressed. But within its own wacky terms, Simone is a funny, smart, improbably successful satire on contemporary celebrity obsessions, the waning summer's most delirious comedy. --By Richard Schickel
...January 2001. The company's reported profits, it turned out, were really losses. In his memo to employees explaining America's latest corporate disgrace, Sidgmore wrote last Wednesday, "Our customers can count on WorldCom to meet their communications needs today and tomorrow." The memo that circulated included one wag's cynical addition: "Friday is sort of doubtful." Sidgmore went on to write, "I know I can count on you to be with me." To which the wag had tacked on: "Don't bother with a resume; no other telecoms are hiring...