China has already got rid of 66,000, and by year's end will remove another 800,000. What?

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Monday's Question (No. 195)--"Suggestive Gestures":

Last week, the British government received a letter offering advice on an ongoing investigation. From whom; suggesting what?

"From Christopher Hitchens, claiming he knows EVERYTHING."--Fred Graver (Chris Kelly had a similar answer, with dandruff and gin.)

"Ken Starr intimating Clinton knows more about Jack the Ripper than he's saying. (I hear Vernon Jordan tried to get him a job at Revlon.)"--Beth Sherman (similarly, Steve Spencer and Al Petrosky)

"Oscar Mayer to the Brits: 'Do what we do. Grind it, spice it, case it, pack it, ship it. Call it Crazy Dogs.' "--Marshall Efron

"Me, suggesting that, in light of recent events, the investigators looking into Princess Diana's death might want to see whether Kate Moss was driving around Paris on the night in question."--Tim Carvell

"The pope, suggesting that Gen. Pinochet not be extradited to Spain. The pope did, however, suggest the extradition of Tinky Winky, for 'crimes against God.' "--Alex Balk

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Randy's Wrap-Up

To News Quiz participants, "investigation" is not theological (angels?), financial (angles?), historical (Engels?), or scientific (something about string theory and tangles?); "investigation" means crime pursued by Ken Starr.

In the 19^th century it meant Pinkerton's, which yesterday agreed to be purchased by Sweden's Securitas AB for $384 million. Founded in 1850 by Scottish immigrant Allan Pinkerton, the firm ran Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid out of the country on behalf of wealthy railroad owners, and beat the heck out of striking workers on behalf of anyone with a few bucks. It also thwarted a plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, and thank God for that, for the entire course of history might have been different had the Great Emancipator been cut down. (Oh, all right; they uncovered an 1861 plot, a whole other thing. But I still blame them for "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.")

"You need to do more than post a guard with a doughnut and a nightstick," said financial analyst John Schnelle, commenting favorably on the merger. "If you are going to enter the global market, why not do it with a marquee name?" Like, say, Starr?

Humanitarian Answer

As Alex Balk knew, the Foreign Office received a plea from the pope to free Augusto Pinochet, reports the Times of London.