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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

I GUESS THEY'LL HAVE TO PUT HIM DOWN

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose was arrested in Stockholm early Tuesday after allegedly biting a security guard in the leg outside his hotel, police said.

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Wednesday, June 21, 2006

HE DID, HOWEVER, ONCE BUMP INTO RINGO STARR, WHILE ON VACATION IN ASPEN

Faling From Genghis's Family Tree

DNA tests have furnished a double surprise for Thomas R. Robinson, an associate professor of accounting at the University of Miami. The first was being told he was descended from Genghis Khan. The second was learning last week that the first test was wrong.

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Friday, June 16, 2006

FUNNY, THAT'S THE SAME THING I HAD TO SAY TO THE PLUMBER BEFORE HE WOULD COME IN AND FIX MY DRAIN

A Changing Mass for U.S. Catholics

Roman Catholic bishops in the United States voted yesterday to change the wording of many of the prayers and blessings that Catholics have recited at daily Mass for more than 35 years, yielding to Vatican pressure for an English translation that is closer to the original Latin.

Catholics will have to learn longer and more awkward versions of familiar prayers. For example, instead of saying, "Lord, I am not worthy to receive you," in the prayer before Communion, they will say, "Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof."

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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

ALL RIGHT, EVERYBODY. FOR THE LAST TIME: WHEN YOU SEE SCOUTMASTERS, PRIESTS, CLOWNS, MOST GYM TEACHERS - IT'S TIME TO LOCK UP YOUR CHILDREN, NOT TURN THEM OVER.

A scout's dishonor spurred two mothers' rage in a Queens courtroom yesterday as a troop leader-turned-child molester was sentenced to 20 years in prison yesterday for stealing the "innocence and trust of little boys."

"Every week, I drove my son, like a lamb to slaughter, to scout meetings," one of the moms thundered at convicted pervert scoutmaster Ronald Occhipinti, clad in a baby blue polo shirt, khaki pants and navy blue sneakers.

"This man molested him in the very next room while I sat and chatted with other parents.

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Occhipinti took videos and photos of the boys in sexual poses, sometimes in the underwear he gave them as gifts, investigators said. They also said they found some of the underwear in plastic bags in his freezer - each bearing a note with the child's name and date of the sexual assault - in the home he shared with his elderly mother in Bayside.

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Thursday, June 08, 2006

WHO SAYS KIDS DON'T PAY ATTENTION IN SCHOOL?

Pupils Say They Saw Teachers Have Sex

TAMPA - Two Hillsborough County middle school teachers have resigned after students saw them having sex in a classroom, a report released Wednesday states.

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DOG BITES MAN

Part-time clown faces child pornography charge

BEACHWOOD — A 46-year-old Beachwood man, who works as a nurse's aide and part-time clown, has been charged with possession of child pornography on his personal computer.

Walter Homan, who works as a nurse's aide with Meridian Health Care in Brick Township and has a business where he performs as "Skates the Clown," was charged with one count of child endangerment for possession of child pornography, Ocean County Prosecutor Thomas F. Kelaher announced Wednesday.

If convicted of the fourth-degree crime, Homan faces up to 18 months in prison and may also have to register as a sex offender under Megan's Law, Executive Assistant Prosecutor Robert A. Gasser said.

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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

I ALWAYS THOUGHT CHAKA KHAN WAS THE FIRST

In the Body of an Accounting Professor, a Little Bit of the Mongol Hordes

The first American to be able to claim descent from Genghis Khan has been discovered. He is Thomas R. Robinson, an associate professor of accounting at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla.

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SOMEBODY BETTER HOLD ME BACK. I'M DEFINITELY CAMPING OUT AT BARNES & NOBLE FOR THIS ONE.

Magazine Editor Is Chosen to Collaborate on Greenspan Memoir

After weeks of speculation, Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, has chosen a collaborator for his memoir, to be published by Penguin Press in fall 2007.

Peter Petre, a senior editor at large at Fortune magazine and co-author of best sellers by Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf and by Thomas J. Watson Jr., former chairman of I.B.M., will help Mr. Greenspan write his book.

Mr. Greenspan, who sold the book for an $8.5 million advance in March, has been interviewing ghostwriting candidates since then.

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Friday, June 02, 2006

ROLL OVER, DIAMOND JIM BRADY

Rumson priest due in court for $2M theft

The Rumson priest who admitted stealing more than $2 million from parish coffers will appear in Superior Court in Monmouth County this morning for sentencing.

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During his time as pastor at Holy Cross, Hughes developed a reputation as a man with a prodigious appetite for the good life. He dined in fine restaurants, took fancy vacations and wore flashy jewelry.

He also played the role of generous benefactor to a young man whose grandmother he had met during a trip to Florida, providing the man, David Rogers, with a house in Howell, a big-screen TV, a stainless steel refrigerator, a $58,000 BMW and trips to Cancun and Bermuda.

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Thursday, June 01, 2006

HEY! HAVE YOU SEEN MY SOCK DRAWER? IT'S FABULOUS!

"People are trying to outdo each other with the fanciness of their closets, and they're showing them off a lot."

Helen Kuhl, editor in chief of Closets, a trade magazine published in Lincolnshire

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MAYBE THE PRISON TIME WILL DAUNT THIS FELLOW

Former teacher admits having sex with student

A former Columbia High School English teacher admitted yesterday to having sex with a 16-year-old student in a school closet and agreed to a penalty of three years in prison.

Nelson Trias, 43, of Union pleaded guilty in Superior Court in Newark to official misconduct stemming from incidents that took place at the school June 1 and 2 of last year, said Deborah Freier, Essex County assistant prosecutor.

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Prior to Trias' arrest, a former student wrote a poem in his honor that is still posted on the student's Web log.

"He handles with tact, the most difficult situations, in which it would be easy to overreact," the student wrote. "A student flaunting her sexuality in a most overt way, he finds undaunting."

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