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No Comment Half-Baked Sale At a recent "affirmative action bake sale" at Southern Methodist University, the Young Conservatives set the price on a sliding scale. White males paid $1.00; white...
...Conquering with Fear "With a healthy dose of fear and violence, and a lot of money for projects, I think we can convince these people that we are here to help them," Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Sassaman told The New York Times...
...White House aides asked people in the crowd standing behind him to take off their ties so that they would look more like the ordinary folks that Bush said would benefit from his tax cut," reports New York Press...
...white women, seventy-five cents...
...Crop Substitution "Some 900 peasant women in Colombia are set to make racy lingerie and sell it to French supermarket chain Carrefour under a U.N.-backed program aimed at encouraging impoverished farmers and their families to stop growing drug crops," reports Reuters...
...The Chosen One "I'm making a conscious decision to take this whole Judaism thing seriously," Geraldo Rivera told The Washington Post about being married in a synagogue...
...Watch Out for Falling Clothes Playboy may not be sold in Wal-Mart, but that's not stopping the magazine from planning a "Women of Wal-Mart" spread...
...Children were sitting on the pork product but inspectors were not fooled, reports The Washington Post...
...Contraband Baloney U.S...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...Holy Legos "The Bible is full of great stories that can translate into Lego," Brendan Powell Smith told People magazine about his book The Brick Testament, which portrays biblical scenes made from the toy blocks...
...Hispanics, fifty cents...
...His unit oversees the Iraqi village of Abu Hishma...
...Playboy.com wants Wal-Mart's sexiest assets to roll back their clothes and pose nude...
...Customs inspectors in El Paso, Texas, seized 756 pounds of Mexican bologna, arranged in the shape of a seat and covered with blankets...
...Wal-Mart employees have a reputation for being cheerful and now Playboy.com is giving them a chance to smile for the camera," reads a press release from Playboy...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...I think the Jews need me right now...
...Image Is Everything "George W. Bush gave a speech in Indianapolis to promote his economic plan...
...and blacks, a quarter...
...Articulate Arnold "I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman," explained California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger...
...He was referring to the "NPR Vintage Collection," a new line of wines...
...Lost in Translation "It's easier to train someone to fly an F-14 than it is to speak Arabic," said Kevin Hendzel, spokesman for the American Translators Association, describing why there aren't enough Arabic-English translators in Iraq...
...Pay as You Grow The two largest manufacturers of breast implants now offer low-interest financing, reports Ms...
...Now we'll find out," said Ken Stern, executive vice president at National Public Radio in Washington...
...Loan payment options include automatic checking-account withdrawals and a "twelve-month same as cash" plan...
...A Bottle of NPR "People suspected that the NPR audience was a wine-sipping audience before...
Vol. 68 • February 2004 • No. 2
