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A PARADE OF THE WORST DICTATORS |
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"De Profundis" was a letter he wrote while in Reading Gaol to Lord Alfred Douglas, with whom he'd had an affair |
Oscar Wilde
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This Oscar-winning actress directed herself in the film "Little Man Tate" |
Jodie Foster
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Giovanni Arduino classified rocks oldest to newest as primary, secondary & this, a term still used |
tertiary
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Come on in for our Monday special: flapjacks topped with this official state fruit of New Jersey |
the blueberry
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Than Shwe rules this country that moved its capital from Rangoon & leads the world in child soldiers |
Myanmar (or Burma)
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Proverbially, true actors love the roar of the crowd & the smell of this stage makeup |
greasepaint
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The only known surviving example of his handwriting is his signature on a 1585 will; his name as written was Marley |
Christopher Marlowe
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Gurinder Chadha scored when she directed Parminder Nagra in this soccer film |
Bend It Like Beckham
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Ma found the recipe for Tuesday's special, a tasty garden scramble, on this margarine's website |
Blue Bonnet
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Hu Jintao is in charge here, where the rate of conviction is 99.7% & 250-300,000 dissidents are held without trial |
China
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Someone who practices weightlifting to develop his or her muscles & physical form |
bodybuilder
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A year after he wrote "Candida", he became a drama critic for the Saturday Review, a job he held for 3 1/2 years |
Shaw
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Mira Nair had "Hysterical Blindness" before directing Reese Witherspoon in this Thackeray film |
Vanity Fair
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Essential minerals can give rocks their names: ferromagnesian minerals contain this &/or magnesium |
iron
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Yum, yum! Wednesday's special is this crustacean that has its own festival in Panacea, Florida |
(Bill: What is a blue stone crab?)
a blue crab
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No. 2 is this man of North Korea, which had the worst score on political rights & civil liberties for 34 straight years |
Kim Jong-il
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A shameful or immoral act is said to be one of these before God |
abomination
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William Shakespeare acted in one of this "To Celia" poet's first plays, "Every Man in His Humour" |
(Ben) Jonson
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Martha Coolidge directed this actress to an Emmy for playing Dorothy Dandridge |
Halle Berry
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Change 2 letters in magnetism & you get this term for the formation of igneous rocks in the Earth's crust |
(Matt: What is magmism?) (Alex: Oh, sorry, you left out a syllable. It's [*], not magmism.)
magmatism
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Ma looked for the Maytag type of this in appliances instead of the grocery aisle before she put it in Thurs.'s salad |
blue cheese
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Under Robert Mugabe of this country, life expectancy went from 62 to 38 years |
Zimbabwe
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If you fail to make your mortgage payments, the bank might place your property in this |
foreclosure
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His 1697 tragedy "The Mourning Bride" contains the well-known line "Music has charms to soothe a savage breast" |
William Congreve
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In this TV drama's "The Supremes" episode, Oscar winner Jessica Yu directed Glenn Close as a Court nominee |
(Alex: And that TV series was the very popular [*].)
The West Wing
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For Friday, we're frying up some of these oysters named for a place on Long Island |
Blue Point oysters
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No. 1 on the list is Omar al-Bashir of this country where 180,000 civilians have been killed in Darfur |
the Sudan
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The hard protective outer covering of an insect or a crustacean |
(Bill: What is carapace?)
exoskeleton
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