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NEVER mind Barack Obama's poortaste gaffe about his bowling being fit only for the Special Olympics.
What's astonishing is the President flying five hours across America to crack this unfunny joke on comic Jay Leno's late-night TV chat show -- the modern example, surely, of 'fiddling while Rome burns'.See the full content of this document
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Can Brown Conquer the Summit? [Scot Region Edition 2]
Actually, Emperor Nero probably didn't play a violin while his city burned -- the instrument hadn't then been invented -- but the phrase has come to mean 'heedle...
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