Friday, August 20, 1999
Nuclear buccaneers
Remember those old American low-budget films still replayed to fill time in late-night broadcasts? I caught a fish this big, says a freckled midwestern on a makeshift stage, holding his hands about a feet apart.
Supreme Court's reservations
A friend's daughter sought this writer's help to procure a full-size human skeleton because the medical college where she was studying did not have enough skeletons for laboratory purposes.
Lucrative carcasses
Oscar Wilde could not have visualised the present post-Kargil euphoria when he uttered these almost prophetic words: ``Formerly we canonised our heroes. The modern trend is to vulgarise them.''
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