I was in seventh GRADE at St. Matthew's. The teachers WOULD TELL me, 'God LOVES you,' and then whack a ruler across my hand. 'Well,' I'd say, 'if God loves me, can you call God? Can you ask Him if it's all RIGHT that I didn't do my homework? If it's not, then let Him hit me.'

The once all-powerful ruler of IRAQ was found in a HOLE, and now sits in a PRISON cell.

In the MIDDLE Ages and BEYOND, the TARGET was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the SPANISH Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.

Prince Charles has doomed himself by so clearly WANTING to be thought clever and CULTURED: the clever, cultured people don't buy it, and the people don't WANT a clever, cultured ruler.

Being chronically SHY I NEEDED to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I COULD be RULER of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong.

It's hard for me not to have a great deal of COMPASSION for the LAST Romanov family because, REALLY, I don't know if a politically savvy ruler would have been able to make the situation TURN out much DIFFERENTLY.

Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved for images of myself. I'd grown up WATCHING a LOT of AMERICAN TV. There was very little Kenyan material, because we had an autocratic ruler who stifled our CREATIVE expression.