As for the sack of the Alexandrian library, that, says Mr Kennedy, is a discredited myth.
On Monday, Mr Stewart had accused the health minister of victimising him for his refusal to sack Sean Donaghy, the chief executive of the Northern Health Trust, over the missed targets.
Think of the frontier doctor who took a chicken and a sack of potatoes for delivering a baby.
Not bad for a song written on the back of a paper sack.
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It has at last been doing some restructuring a third of the workforce faces the sack, and the company is being split up with a view to finding foreign partners for each of the bits.
Editorial cartooning: Steve Sack of the Star Tribune, Minneapolis, for his diverse collection of cartoons, using an original style and clever ideas to drive home his unmistakable point of view.
He had planned to sack Ryszard Czarnecki, head of the bureaucracy preparing for membership of the European Union.
In one hand he had a sack of toys for well-behaved youngsters, in the other, a club for beating the naughty ones.
MPs who have collected names on a petition can put it in a specially-made sack on the back of the Speaker's chair, ready for it to be considered by the government.
Shadow Commons leader Oliver Heald told MPs he had previously "cited examples of babies receiving ballot papers, heads of families filling them in for the whole family, employers threatening to sack staff unless they voted for a particular political party, and other worrying abuses".
For Robert Kraft it all started in 1971 on the cold, hard metal benches of a sad-sack football stadium in Foxboro, Mass.
Joey Evans (Adrian Aguilar), the title character, is a cheap-souled Chicago hoofer who catches the eye of Vera Simpson (Susie McGonagle), a man-hungry socialite of a certain age who buys him a nightclub in return for his services in the sack.
This week saw the tenth anniversary of the assassination of Marco Biagi, the expert behind a previous attempt to make it easier for employers to sack surplus workers.
For some Americans, the crucial test of Mr Karzai's seriousness in tackling corruption is his willingness to sack Ahmed Wali Karzai, his half-brother, who lords it over the south as head of Kandahar's provincial council.
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