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Sunday, July 30, 2000 — North Shore News - 11

Swing your partner, do-si-don't

EIGHT farmers in the town
of Nemaha, lowa (population
112), have taught themselves
to perform various square:
dancing routines while seated
on, and precisely maneuver-
ing, their tractors, according,
to a June San Francisco
Chronicle dispatch from the
heartland.

However, an apparent
problem for the farmers is
thar all are males, while
square-dancing is a couples

y. Thus, four of the
dancers operate their tractors
while in calico skirts, under
the apparent belief that cross-
dressing is more acceptable
than having an overily same-
sex dance partner.

high school

Carithers was
suspended from the presti-
gious Latin Academy in
Boston after complying with a
class assignment to write a
horror story. In Carithers’
tale, a menacing student cut
off the teacher’s hand with a
chain saw, which the real
teacher interpreted as a
threat. Said Carichers in
defense, “If ] wrote a student
killed his taxi driver, that
doesn’t have the same effect.”
And in January, senior Sarah
Boman was suspended from
Bluestem High School in
Leon, Kan., for the rest of the
year after complying with an
assignment to create art that

‘emphasizes an idea, rather

than an object. She drew a
large mural of jumbled words
representing, she said, the

man, but that, too, was inter-
preted by the teacher as a
threat. (After appeals, both
suspensions were lifted.)

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In February in
Providence, BLL, the family
of the late beater William J.
Hussey, 55, tiled a wrongful
death lawsuit against the city,
arguing that Hussev’s fatal
heart attack was caused by
Assistant Harbor Master Paul
J. Williams during a 1998
incident. However, according
to police reports, all Williams
had done was to yell at
Hussey, who was maneuver-
ing his boat without required
navigation lights. Hussey’s
nearly last words were, to
Williams, “Mind your own
(expletive deleted) business.”

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February, former
go municipal treasurer
Miriam Santos was released
from a prison work camp near
Pekin, IIl., when her federal
extortion conviction was
overturned on appeal. She
met immediately — with
reporters and announced that
she would try to regain her
old job at the next opportuni-
ty and said, about her crime,
“Foam probably the first
woman to go to jail (merely)

for PMS-ing.”

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Mark Merrill, 38, filed a
jawsuit in February in Gary,
Ind., against Donald Trump,
alleging that the reason
Merrill turned to bank rob-
bery (in Peotone, HL, in 1998

was excessive debt, in that the
floating Trump Casino in
Gary fed his gambling, addic-

tion by enticing him to wager,
even offering him tree trips to
Las Vegas.

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