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In Germany yesterday for the 10 th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, former President Bush reminisced about some bad advice he received a decade ago: "In my view, that would have been an open provocation, tantamount to sticking our fingers in the eyes of the Soviet military."
He is joined in his crime-fighting efforts by The Shovel (William H. Macy), who wields the same, and the effete English Blue Raja (Hank Azaria), whose talent is for operatically flinging wide his cape and hurling forks, most of which end up sticking out of his companions instead of his foes.
The paper also reports two sticking points: 1) the Israelis want to put a specific number of Palestinians-including some Palestinian Authority cops-on trial for terrorist attacks against Israelis, and 2) the Palestinians are insisting that safe passage rights for their people between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip extend to making the trip in private cars, not just mass transportation.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
I tried sticking a thumbtack into my buttocks and I bled."