From The New Republic, March 4, 1996:

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Notebook

SIC TRANSIT: When Random House demanded she return a $1.3 million 
advance because her manuscript was unreadable, Joan Collins said she had 
already spent the money, explaining "a million dollars sounds like a lot, but 
it actually isn't." ... On a visit to Iran, Louis Farrakhan praised the country 
for holding an election every year since its Islamic revolution, saying, "This 
is a theocracy, but it is also a democracy." ... After indicting a postal 
worker on charges of stealing more than $800,000 from his agency, federal 
agents found letters he had written to God before his arrest: "I continue to 
petition you to conceal this matter." ... Eighty-one-year-old Pompano 
Beach, Florida, resident Izzie Rotterman fended off a mugger by beating the 
assailant with an onion, which he later sliced and put into a restaurant 
salad.... The National Review endorsed Phil Gramm for president.... 
RESEARCHERS INVESTIGATING THE TAXONOMY OF 
CHILDREN'S TELEVISION CHARACTERS REPORTED TO 
A MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE THAT BARNEY'S BONE 
STRUCTURE BARELY RESEMBLES ANY KNOWN 
DINOSAUR SKELETON AND MAY, IN FACT, RESEMBLE A 
HUMANOID'S.... American Airlines has published A Taste of 
Something Special, a cookbook of recipes for in-flight meals.... 
Presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan promised a Washington gun 
lobbyist, "When I get to that White House, I'm gonna take that medallion 
you gave me, the patron saint of handgunners, Gabriel Possenti, and I'm 
gonna hang that in the Oval Office--right along with Robert E. Lee's pistol!"