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* Looking for an amusing gift, a stocking-stuffer for someone you love at Chr ... Sorry! Sorry!--over the holidays? Consider one of the new talking action dolls. They come as twelve-inch likenesses of famous people, equipped with a button that, when pressed, causes the doll to speak one of 15 or so different sound bites. The manufacturers have tried to select these utterances so as to give a rounded view of the speaker. The Bill Clinton doll, for example, will say both "We have to change the way the government works" and "It depends upon what ...

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