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Amnesty International has sparked a glitzy Hollywood backlash from its usual left wing fan-base by submitting a draft policy calling for prostitution to be legalised in order to promote the human rights of prostitutes.

Mr. Answer Man, I notice that R. W. Apple, chief front-page analyst of the New York Times, got caught again predicting another quagmire, though he had the wit to avoid the exact word this time. Why does he keep doing this? A. Quagmireology is not an exact science. Perhaps he was using outdated tea leaves or defunct chicken bones. Maybe he got the brutal Afghan winter confused with the brutal Iraqi summer. All we know is that from now on, every general hoping for victory anywhere in the world will crave one of Apple's dire predictions. It's the only sure...

"Bush is a baby-killer," screamed the signs during an anti-war rally in London. "Could I have the microphone for one minute to tell the people of my life?" a 78-year-old Iraqi exile asked Rev. Jesse Jackson during the anti-war demonstration. But according to the National Post, Jackson replied, "Today is not about Saddam Hussein. Today is about Bush and Blair and the massacre they plan in Iraq." "Under the leadership of President Saddam Hussein," said Human Rights Watch's policy paper on Iraq, "... the Iraqi government has committed a vast number of crimes against the Iraqi people and others, using...