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TOP STORIES/ Most Popular, December 25
-Bloody day in Israel, Gaza
-Musharraf survives assassination attempt
-90 people killed in West Africa plane crash
-USDA: British lab concurs with mad cow test results
-'Green zone' comes under fire in Iraq
-Air France flights to U.S. to resume Friday
-Scientists in nail-biting wait for Beagle signal
-Corpse found in plane's wheel well
-Son calls stunned parents after his funeral
-Former Miss S. Africa attacked by hippo
-Hundreds poisoned, 191 die in China gas blowout
It was Christmas Day,
and the usual mayhem
was upon us while the cradle
rocked in
Bethlehem, and
if it wasn’t hippos, it was
people throwing bombs, while others
rose from
the dead, or didn’t, or tried hitching
rides on airplane
wheels, arriving stone
cold from Jamaica, and
all of
us going mad,
including the cows. It
was Christmas Day in the
trenches, 25 December, early in
the Third Millennium,
headlines were exploding all
about, and the usual mayhem
was upon us.