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Rupert Murdoch Shows the Wrong Face

Written by Taki on September 21, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Rupert Shows the Wrong Face I was ready to declare a Tibetan "fatwa" on Rupert Murdoch’s head following his criticism of the Dalai Lama, but then I realized it was an oxymoron. Tibetans won’t even kill a worm, believing that all life is sacred–even that of Rupert Murdoch, the Don Giovanni of the deal. Murdoch
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Smiling Serpent Hillary; East Timor as the Next Kosovo

Written by Taki on September 14, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The Smiling Serpent If you thought comedy was dead, you obviously haven’t heard of Strobe Talbott, the State Dept.’s factotum where Russian affairs are concerned. The Strobe used to be a Time hack, a man who took, and continues to take, himself extremely seriously. The reason I find him so funny is simple. There is
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Radical Chic: Reports From London, Tuscany & the Hamptons

Written by Taki on September 7, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The Life & Loves of Osama bin Laden "It is little, but in my view his head is not worth more." This was the Afghan religious scholar Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost talking about Bill Clinton. In case any of you missed it, Abdul is the clever chap who offered $113 to anybody who kills the
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A Cure for Love Rats; All About Anna; Eichmann’s Memoirs

Written by Taki on September 1, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Love Rat At first I thought it had to be the greatest news since the discovery of penicillin. Scientists are on the verge of finding a cure for those who cheat on their wives and girlfriends, i.e., love rats. Research on rats–pun intended–has shown that a genetic tendency to infidelity can be reversed, and
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Prince of Jibes; Human Rights; Virgin Shaglantic

Written by Taki on August 25, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Prince of Jibes Oh dear! Prince Philip has gone and done it again. This time, however, he had to apologize. Last week, while visiting an electronics company in Scotland, he spotted a fuse box with wires sticking out and joked that “it looks as though it had been put in by an Indian.” Needless to
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The Victor of Kosovo; Madonna’s Ghost; Status Panic

Written by Taki on August 18, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The Victor of Kosovo To be, or not to be abused; That is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the press to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous accusations, Or to unleash Carville against a sea of pundits, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by sleep to
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The Anti-Meanness Movement; The Reform Party’s Future

Written by Taki on August 11, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The King of Mean A couple of years ago I happened to see an article in the Utne Reader that listed the 10 most “progressive” cities in the United States. One of the cities making the cut was Portland, ME. This gladdened my heart. I was about to move to Portland part-time, and, as an LBJ Democrat, I thought
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The Seniors Tennis Circuit; Worshipping Mammon

Written by Taki on August 4, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Tennis Balls Along with “The Girls in their Summer Dresses,” “The Eighty-Yard Run” is my favorite Irwin Shaw short story. Christian Darling’s memory of his broken-field run as he walks along the grass where he played 15 years earlier is a magical moment in fiction. Although Darling’s run was only in practice, all the
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Reds Were As Bad as Nazis; Dating Hell

Written by Taki on July 28, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The Red Menace I remember it as if it were yesterday. I had a drink with Lee Radziwill, back then married to Stas Radziwill, the Polish nobleman, and she brought along a rather good-looking fellow whom I recognized immediately. It was 1965 and Warren Beatty did not have that extreme pulled look he does nowadays. He was quite polite
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Stinky Parisians; Stalking Tina

Written by Taki on July 21, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

One Wedding & A Funeral First the wedding, and a very pretty one it was. Princess Alexia of Greece, 33, the eldest child of ex-King Constantine of the Hellenes and Queen Anne Marie, married Carlos Morales Quintana, 28, a Spaniard and a commoner. The wedding took place last Friday in London, and every crowned head of Europe—and just as
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