Kremlin aides said Friday that President Boris Yeltsin, now in 
hospital with pneumonia, should be well enough to see out his 
remaining 18 months in office. The Premier's spokesperson 
also called on American doctor Jack Kevorkian to please stop 
pestering the Kremlin with calls and letters.

Swedish business consultant Ulf af Trolle labored 13 years
          on a book about Swedish economic solutions. He took the
          250-page manuscript to be copied, only to have it reduced to
          50,000 strips of paper in seconds when a worker confused the
          copier with the shredder.

Mu boyfriend's sister had come home earlier than normal
from a basketball game and the aunt asked,
"Why?  Did the game get rained out?"