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This week's cover is our retreat from nostalgia and look to the future. We took an informal poll and learned that Sarah Michelle Geller, of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" fame, is considered the quintessential modern woman. Ee-yew.

Yet another confirmation that Rodja is getting too old to publish a "hip and happening" World Magazine like G21. Find a replacement, Boss!

DELHI, INDIA - Atal Behari Vajpayee's critics call him "the mask" - saying his benign smile of moderation hides his party's links with Hindu extremists.

Although he leads the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), his priority seems to be raising India's profile as an aspiring world power, rather than making war on Pakistan.

Since a 13 December suicide attack on India's parliament by militants allegedly based in neighbouring Pakistan, Mr Vajpayee has taken a tough line.

Yet those close to him say his personal mission has been to improve relations with Pakistan... MORE





by MATTIE LENNON

DUBLIN, IRELAND - A man has been found dead stuffed into a briefcase floating on the Grand canal - Gardai are treating it as suspicious!!! -- RTE Radio 1News July 2001

"When I said they'd scored two goals, of course I meant they'd scored one." -- RTE Commentator George Hamilton

"The referendum went as most people hoped it would." -- Irish Times editorial displaying acute understanding of the Democratic Process.

"Clap your feet!" -- Bernie of the Nolan Sisters.

"He's pulling him off. The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off!" -- George Hamilton as Butregueno comes off against Ireland.

"The idea is well and good in theory, but tell me this, who is going to feed them?" -- Wicklow Councillor objects to a proposal to boost tourism by putting gondolas on Blessington Lake.

"We are not prepared to stand idly by and be murdered in our beds." -- Rev. Ian Paisley. ... MORE





by KIMBERLY BLAKER

Kimberly Blaker

Unfortunately, the events of September 11 have paradoxically played right into the hands of America's Christian right. This movement has flourished in our fear-ridden nation in spite of the obvious lessons of Osama bin Laden's jihad. American theocrats have even managed to draw support from many moderates, as extreme right politicians have further fused God and Jesus with government, patriotism, and the warding off of Islamic fundamentalist evils....MORE










by STEVE OGAH

LAGOS, NIGERIA - Writing about David Beckham in his first appearance in Madrid's football turgy, I had concluded with the conviction that they was plenty still unseen from him, as his careerÝfor his new club was just beginning to sprout in radiant hues. There was every tolerable reason to lay my thoughts in this direction, in view of the proven mettle of scoring form dead balls as a tag of footballing identity by Beckham.

Devoted followers of the star's football comet had welcomed the friendly game against the Chinese with an ebullient hope to witness the first goal of David in the colors of Real Madrid. For these people, the opposition from the Asian team was not rock solid enough to deter magical ball spins off the lethal foot of one of the most feared masters of the art of free kicks..MORE








by ROD AMIS

NEW ORLEANS - 16 November, 2003: LYNN, AN IRISH BARTENDER I KNOW has a t-shirt that has the words "Man's Ruin" emblazoned on it. I have flirted with her over the past two years but she has no time for me. That's probably for the best.

I have found that ironic comment across her chest quite a pleasure, though I think it would be more suitable for my friend Sarah. (Yes, another bartender.)

[Subliminal Man: "There's something about you girl, that makes me sweat!"]

Dragana writes that she is waiting for the day that I finally find you, my love. Or that I at least have a bit of casual sex. She is confident that I shall eventually get off this iceberg that is my life and reinvigorate the companionable part of existence. But, like Herr Doktor Frankenstein's creation, I continue to float toward the North Pole.

I was thinking I should make a list of things you should know about me, my love, so that our relationship would be more successful than those storied ones, failed ones, I have had in the past.

1. I am hypercritical, both of others and myself. This is a tendency you should best moderate for me. Try to help me not to take things so literally and seriously. Remind me how much fun it is to laugh.

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