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Zuma sues media group over cartoon
JOHANNESBURG – South African president Jacob Zuma has sued a leading media group and others over a two-year-old political cartoon depicting him in a sexually suggestive scene with a figure representing “Lady Justice".
Zuma is seeking 4 million rand (€437,210) for defamation from Avusa media and an additional 1 million rand from a former editor with the groups Sunday Times newspaper and the cartoonist, said Eric van der Berg, an attorney with the Sunday Times, yesterday. – (Reuters)
‘Whatever’ tops US poll of most annoying words
NEW YORK – Whatever you think about using grating words, at the end of the day its actually better not to say whatever . . . if you know what I mean.
For the second consecutive year “whatever” topped a Marist poll as the most annoying word or phrase in the English language.
Nearly 39 per cent of 1,020 Americans questioned in the survey deemed it the most irritating word, followed by “like” with 28 per cent and the phrase “you know what I mean” at 15 per cent.
The phrase “to tell you the truth” and “actually” were also unnerving to many people. But, for younger Americans, aged 18 to 29, like was the word that annoyed them most. – (Reuters)