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No. 330: "One Down, 94 To Go"

On Sunday in Berlin, Lutheran and Roman Catholic officials signed a joint declaration, resolving a conflict that began exactly 482 years ago. It turns out that, on this point, both churches believe the same thing. What?

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Thursday's Question (No. 329)--"Ladies Foist":

"Please be a lady," Jesse Helms chided Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., in a Senate hearing room Tuesday. Then he sicced the cops on her. What had Woolsey done?

"Dared to venture out without her chador."--Lisa Dickey (Tom Crawford had a similar answer.)

"She ordered the 14-ounce strip steak, two double Dewar's on the rocks, and dessert, instead of the diet plate."--Leslie Goodman-Malamuth

"She let her duck out of the house without its diaper on. Apparently that's another one of those laws that they never took off the books."--Francis Heaney

"She called him 'Sen. Tobacco-Breath Penis-Head.' "--Richard Nikonovich-Kahn

"Wandered all over the room and blew on some other guy's dice."--Daniel Radosh (similarly, Stasia Ananson and Richard Nikonovich-Kahn)

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