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No. 274: "Chants Taking"

Over the past few days, these demonstrators shouted: "Down with the dictator," "Oh Great Leader, shame on you!" and "Jerks!" Who was protesting what?

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Monday's Question (No. 273)--"Fun With Ambiguity":

Here's a headline from this weekend's New York Times: "Swerve and Sharp Elbow Cost a Hotfoot the Stage." What's the lead?

"Wayne Gretzky reverts to old ways in ill-fated Cats cameo."--Justin Warner

"Lawrence Olivier in a posthumous revival of Hamlet."--Leslie Goodman-Malamuth

"Things got ugly in Iowa today when Elizabeth Dole suddenly shouted, 'Off the stage, m*****f*****,' and sent George W. Bush reeling, in a scene eerily reminiscent of her husband's 1996 tumble."--Richard Nikonovich-Kahn

"Senate leaders from both sides of the aisle opened Pecksniffian frippery holus-bolus Friday, as House Republicans vowed to roughhew the spittoon."--Bob Bruce

"The Riverdance craze came to a bizarre ending last night as the show's star Michael Flatley was pummeled to death by audience members at a Sturgis, S.D., biker rally."--Markus Beeby

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