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No. 417: "Rushdie's Rush"

"[It] rushes in on you from every direction; I'm suffering from a kind of overload," said Salman Rushdie as he did something for the first time in over a dozen years. What?

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Thursday's Question (No. 416)—"Key Words":

Fill in the blank as Congressman David Dreier, a California Republican, responds to demonstrators: "A few thousand people bused to Washington today by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. can't change the fact that the sky is blue, the earth is round and ___________ is the key to the United States creating 20 million new jobs."

"Reducing the minimum wage to 50 cents an hour."—Gary Frazier

"A slew of Frank Gehry-designed prisons."—Michele Siegel

"Using our aging and already paid for nuclear arsenal to cull the working-class herd."—Charlie Glassenberg

"That silly little thing called 'love.' "—Ellis Weiner (Peter Lerangis and Tim Carvell had similar answers.)

"The boundless wealth of the Internet economy ... hmm? No, I haven't watched Bloomberg this week. Should I?"—Jason Ross

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