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"I’m too ugly to get a job."
— Daniel Gallagher, a Miami bank robber, after police captured him in
2003
The hapless Mr. Gallagher may have been ugly, but he was also wise.
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MALIBU, Calif. — Authorities are investigating the circumstances
behind a spectacular crash on Pacific Coast Highway that destroyed a
rare Ferrari Enzo estimated to be worth more than $1 million.
The red Ferrari was going [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –In his five-year tenure at Harvard University,
President Lawrence H. Summers frequently found himself in the spotlight
because of rifts with faculty at the Ivy League institution.
Tuesday, facing the second no-confidence vote by faculty members in
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An interesting article appeared on the front page of the New
York Times today concerning the balance between utility and imposition represented
by student email to college professors.
We are pretty much [...]

An Israeli pilot is offering to take couples on flights around Tel
Aviv so that they can join the mile high club.
For less than $250, pilot Tamir Harpas will take adventurous lovers on
a 45 minute [...]

Did we ever mention that we once had as a student a female Japanese lawyer named Sosumi?

TEL
AVIV – Israel’s military has found the perfect vehicle for special operations
forces – the llama. After extensive tests, the uncomplaining
work-horse animals were found to easily out-perform donkeys. What’s more,
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On February 16, 2006, the reformist Internet daily Rooz (www.roozonline.com)
reported for the first time that extremist clerics from Qom had issued
what the daily called "a new fatwa," which states that "the
shari’a [...]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iranians love Danish
pastries, but when they look for the flaky dessert at the bakery they
now have to ask for "Roses of the Prophet Muhammad."
Bakeries across the capital were covering [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Vice President Dick Cheney disclosed Wednesday that
he has the power to declassify sensitive government information, authority
that could set up a criminal defense for his former chief of staff, I.
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Actress
Molly Sims is shown wearing a $30 million diamond bikini in this publicity
photograph released February 14, 2006. The bikini, designed by Susan
Rosen is made up of over 150 carats of D [...]

We
heard the news that the Vice President had shot his lobbyist friend
in a hunting accident while we were in the
ICU at a minor urban hospital, doped up [...]