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...safe, but Whoopi was 100 percent grade-A raunch. After Vanessa Williams sang the hit song from Pocohontas, she wondered aloud about the color of her own "wind." And when she tackled Showgirls, she was just asking for trouble: "I haven't seen that many poles abused since WWII"... Poor Kelly Martin. She decided to leave "ER" and as punishment, the producers have her randomly butchered onscreen so that her bloodstained memory leaves a bitter taste... Leo on the cover of Time. Leo on the cover of Rolling Stone. Leo on the cover of Talk. My God! This...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: Soman's in the [K]NOW | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

...Russians have adopted this strategy. In order to maintain popularity, they must minimize Russian troop casualties. It is easy to condemn this strategy and its real and atrocious human cost, but it is not unlike American justification for the use of the atomic bomb on Japanese cities during WWII. Moreover, as in all wars with guerrilla fighters, it is often hard to tell Chechen rebels from ordinary villagers...

Author: By Charles C. De simone, | Title: Chechen Conundrum | 12/14/1999 | See Source »

...Buchanan has left a trail of incendiary and occasionally offensive comments from his previous two presidential runs and "off season" political columns. They range from his proposal to build a triple wall along the Mexican border patrolled by the National Guard to his new book questioning American involvement in WWII. He has pledged that, under a Buchanan regime, the "Chinese won't sell another pair of chopsticks in any mall in America...

Author: By Charles C. Desimone, | Title: Substance Behind the Antics | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

Kozol, who was also a father, grandfather and WWII veteran was buried Wednesday in Baker Street Cemetery in West Roxbury...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kozol, Longtime Boston Dentist, Dies at 91 | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...Buchanan has set a date for the invasion. After months of massing his troops at the border, CNN reports that the man with mixed feelings about WWII has scheduled a press conference for October 25 to announce (finally!) that he?s joining the Reform party and gunning for its presidential nomination. That the announcement will be made in the D.C. suburb of Falls Church, Va., pretty much sums up his appeal ?- he?s a political outsider who?s not too far outside and a political commentator who?s smart enough to sound halfway credible and wacky enough to appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here's a War Buchanan Wants to Fight | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

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