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Elton John has been feuding with Madonna on and off for the last few years, but his remarks about her in an interview for Australian TV that aired on Sunday night were harsh, even for him. Not only did he declare her career “over,” but he said she looked like a “fairground stripper

The outgoing United Nations secretary general said it himself yesterday as he addressed the General Assembly for the last time: Current events, sadly conceded Kofi Annan - specifically those in Darfur, but Darfur could be read as a metaphor - "make a mockery of our claim, as an international community, to shield people from the worst abuses." Mockery indeed. Which is about the same thing President Bush told his collected audience of the crooked, the incompetent, the imbecilic and the asleep - the "community of nations" he has repeatedly urged "to defend civilization and build a more hopeful future." Yesterday,...