MALACCA, Malaysia —-
Government education offi-
cials have contirmed a report
that a fifth-grade boy, who
was shirking his homework
assignments, was held by the

The Plains, Ohio — Two
volunteer firetighters, playing
hide-and-seck with neighbor:
hood kids, got stuck in a tree
{5 feet up oar abour 10:30
pom.

Recently declared as drug
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dents in possession: cough
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wrapped bore of Bordeaus
wine asa Christmas gite for
an cighth-grader’s French
teacher (Cobb | County,
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No ‘Dog ate my homework’ tales here

Peter Lawrence, 39, about
$16 million for injuries he
suffered ina 1991 motorey-
de accident.

Several broken bones
mended quickly, but nat the

court found, Lawrence was
an easygoing man with a sta-
ble marriage and a good job,
burt now, atter having lost his
job and marriage, he cannot
stop im aking impulsive, offen-

damage to the part of his | sive sexual advances, and
brain that governs emotion several women testified that
and control. he has sexually harassed

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London, England -- Vhe
High Court has awarded

According to a report in
The Washington Past, armed
robbers in the large Nigerian
trading city of Onitsha are so
bold, and the police so out-
manned, that they often noti-
fy the victims in advance that
they will be coming to rob

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them.

This is to encourage the
residents to be away from the
house at the time.

A few days atter the police
announced a crackdown, one
gang of 50 armed robbers
cordoned off a street and
looted = every apartment
building on the block.

Cairo, Egypt — To help
the government's case against
him, accused bus fire-bomber
Saber Abu el-Ulla played
himself in) a prosecutors’
video re-enacement of the
crime in.

A jovial el-Ulla acted out
all the sequences, including
firing at the tourist passen-
gers and hurling three
Molotov cocktails down the
aisle of the bus.

Said a clearly pleased cl-
Ulla, “I have always wanted
to be +n actor.”

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Welsh welfare couple
Shaun and fulie Doran com-
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tree house built for them by
the government was “roo
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The Dorans and their nine
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Outlaw Koose Munusamy
Veerappan, 47, wanted in
connection with more than
130 murders and 200 cle-
phant-killings in the southern
India states of Karnataka and
Tamil Nadu, announced that
he would surrender to
authorities in Madras.

Bur only on the condition
that he be given a subsidy of
about $143,000 and” an
immediate presidential par
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