“A Fetish of Candor.”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> He actually believes the
\nMaximum Leader and his cronies are “drunk on truth serum.” (If Brooks keeps this up, the Times
\nis going to have to start testing him for steroids.)<\/P>
\nFinally, this morning’s Gray Lady offered a tidbit from Reuters<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> that’s too funny for The Onion.
\nAt the European Union summit meeting on Friday, Italy’s multibillionaire prime minister,
\nSilvio Berlusconi, told a joke “about being thrown from a helicopter” that “went like this,
\naccording to an aide who heard it”:<\/P>
\n
\n
Mr. Berlusconi and his wife were flying over a crowd of protesters when he
\nsaid to her: “I could throw out one 10,000-euro note and make one person happy. I could throw
\ntwo 5,000-euro notes and make two people happy. Or I could throw 10,000 1-euro coins and
\nmake 10,000 people happy.” To which the pilot replied, “We could throw you out and make
\neveryone happy.”<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n<\/P>
\n
It sounds like an urban legend that David Brooks might have made up, but it’s
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