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Tuesday, April 01, 2003

# Posted 10:51 PM by Patrick Belton  

BOND VILLAIN OR HUSSEIN FAMILY MEMBER?: American (and British) moviewriters couldn't make this stuff up. The Bondean sociopath here is, of course, Uday Hussein, who tortures and murders Iraqi athletes whose performance in international sporting events doesn't please his caprice. Uday is head of the Iraqi national Olympics committee. What has the Olympics' governing IOC done about this? If you're guessing "zippo" - you win, errr, a copy of my thesis. Not wanting to stick out at the next international organizations party in Brussels, IOC board members have said "you have to make sure this is not all tied to the Iraq-U.S. dispute, that we are not being used for propaganda. You just never know."

The game alluded to in the header is, by the way, a variant of the "English dessert or STD?" game beloved by generations of Americans at Oxford. Examples: spotted dick? treacle?
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