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(CNN) -- If George Orwell and Lucille Ball had a love child, his name would be Stephen Colbert.

In the last century, the great critics of corrupt political language were British authors who wrote dystopian novels. In "1984," Orwell described a totalitarian society in which meaningless political language, dubbed Newspeak, veiled horrible truths.

Earlier, In "Brave New World," Aldous Huxley described toddlers conditioned in laboratories to be afraid of books. And in "A Clockwork Orange," Anthony Burgess imagined a world in which ultraviolent teens rampaged in a distinctive English-Russian patois that defined their alienation from society and authority.

Now in the 21st century, there is Colbert's "truthiness" -- political half-truths, quarter-truths and what the website Politifact describes as "Pants-on-Fire" prevarications.

On his Comedy Central show, "The Colbert Report," he introduced "The Word," a regular deconstruction of language contortion designed, in Orwell's notion, to defend the indefensible. (One example: "A Perfect World," as in, journalists should demand to investigate torture, but it's not a perfect world.)

It's sharp political humor and a canny critique of American culture, language and iconography. And it's helped the comic emerge as this nation's court jester, licensed by the youthful cable TV audience to speak truth to power.

Such is Colbert's power and influence that he has been invited to testify before Congress today on the issue of illegal immigration -- and to testify in character. It's as if the Congress of the Eisenhower years invited Harpo Marx to offer testimony by beeping his bicycle horn.

Colbert has long been on to something important about the nature of our political discourse at the beginning of a new postmodern millennium: that ideology has become the lens through which Americans found their particular truth, let the evidence be damned.
1. Who has a show?

Numbered answers:
1. Colbert.

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ORLANDO, Florida (CNN) -- An ex-astronaut accused of assaulting a romantic rival in a Florida parking lot will stand trial December 7, a judge ruled.

Prosecutors accuse Nowak of driving nearly 900 miles wearing NASA diapers to track down her rival.

Lisa Marie Nowak, 46, is accused of stalking Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman and pepper-spraying her in a parking lot at Orlando International Airport in February 2007.

She has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted kidnapping with intent to inflict bodily harm, battery and burglary of a vehicle using a weapon. If convicted, she could face a sentence of up to life in prison.

Prosecutors accuse Nowak of driving nearly 900 miles from Houston to Orlando -- wearing NASA diapers to cut down on the number of stops she needed to make -- and donning a disguise before following Shipman from baggage claim to a parking lot. Her attorney, Don Lykkebak, has denied that she wore the diapers.

Shipman told police that after she got into her car, Nowak feigned distress and knocked on the window. When Shipman cracked it to talk to her, Nowak sprayed her in the face with pepper spray, Shipman said. Police said Nowak was apprehended as she was disposing of her disguise in an airport trash bin.

Nowak has said she went to the airport to talk to Shipman, who had begun dating Nowak's former love interest, Navy Cmdr. Bill Oefelein, who was also an astronaut but has since left the astronaut corps.

Judge Marc Lubet handed Nowak a legal victory in November 2007 when he ruled evidence found in her car and statements she made to police after her arrest were inadmissible at trial because both were unlawfully obtained.
1. Who is the defendant?
2. Where did he work?
3. How old is she?
4. Who is the plaintiff?
5. Where all these happened?
6. When?
7. Where did the plaintiff work?
8. Did the defendant plead guilty?
9. How long she drove to reach her?
10. From where to where?
11. What was she wearing then?
12. Who did they love?
13. Where did he work?
14. Was he in the force too?
15. Who was the Judge?
16. Who won the legal battle?
17. When the verdict was given?
18. What the judge said about the evidence?
19. Who was defendant's attorney?
20. Did he deny about the diapers issue?

Numbered answers:
1. Lisa Marie Nowak
2. unknown
3. 46
4. Colleen Shipman
5. Orlando International Airport
6. February 2007.
7. Air Force
8. No
9. 900 miles
10. Houston to Orlando
11. NASA diapers
12. Bill Oefelein
13. the astronaut corps
14. No
15. Judge Marc Lubet
16. Nowak
17. November 2007
18. It was inadmissible at trial because both were unlawfully obtained
19. Don Lykkebak
20. Yes

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(CNN) -- The unexpected resignation of David Petraeus as head of the CIA must have come as a shock to many Americans, especially given his impeccable record as a distinguished military commander. But like the greatest heroes from Shakespeare, it would appear that he was not exempt from the time-honored temptations of human folly and self-destruction.

And now the plot is thickening, as details emerge that Gen. John Allen, the commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, is involved somehow in the scandal.

As Americans are coming to terms with the revelation of Petraeus' adultery, on the other side of the Atlantic, the feeling among the French can be summed up by a blase shrug.

Every time a steamy sexual intrigue is laid bare near the corridors of Washington power, the French don't see what all the fuss is about. It's only sex, after all. It's impossible to imagine a French political leader resigning because of an extramarital indiscretion. If this rule were observed, the French parliament would be nearly vacant.

The Petraeus affair: A lot more than sex

The past five French presidents are known to have had at least one -- and in some cases, many more -- mistresses throughout their political career. The current resident of the Elysee Palace, Francois Hollande, has been caught in the middle of an embarrassing dispute between his previous and current female companions. The French, long used to regarding their leaders with cynical detachment, have been following this tormented domestic feud with interest and maybe some contempt.
1. Who was head of the CIA?
2. Is he still in charge?
3. What happened?
4. Who is in charge of US and NATO troops?
5. In which country?
6. How do the French feel about these events?
7. Where does the French president live?
8. How many French presidents haven't been faithful?
9. Have any had more than one mistress?
10. Who is the current president?
11. How could Petraeus's record be characterized?
12. What country is Petraeus from?
13. How many temptations are mentioned?
14. What's the first one?
15. And the second?
16. How many other people are in Hollande's dispute?
17. Who is one?
18. And the other?
19. How does Hollande feel about it?
20. Is it a domestic or international feud?
Numbered answers:
1. David Petraeus
2. no
3. adultery
4. Gen. John Allen
5. Afghanistan
6. they don't see what all the fuss is about.
7. Elysee Palace
8. 6 including the current
9. yes
10. Francois Hollande,
11. a distinguished military commander.
12. America
13. Two
14. human folly
15. self-destruction
16. Two
17. previous female companion
18. current female companion
19. embarrassed
20. domestic