Recent book The Queen of the Damned

Favorite Actor . Laurence Fishburne ©:
‘Fatare plons go bok to choo! after

A 13-year-old boy was sen-
tenced to 25 years in prison in
December for killing his par-
ents in retaliation for their not

letting him go on a church
field trip (Canton, Texas).

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Among the | February
reform recommendations sub-
mitted to the Home Office by
the British gay rights organiza-
tion OutRage (in its effort to
end different treatment of hec-
erosexuals and homosexuals)
was a proposal urging that the
government legalize sex in
public restroom cubicles.

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Police called to a Giant
supermarket in Yardley, Pa., in
January arrested Samuel
Feldman, 37, and charged him
with one count of criminal
mischief but suspected he is
the person responsible for a
three-year spree of squeezing,
smashing and poking packages
of bread and cookies in various
area supermarkets, ruining,
more than $8,000 worth of
goods. After the squeezer had
struck more than 100 times in
the area, Giant installed a hid-
den camera and, according to
police, when Feldman was
seen squeezing bread on the
third separate occasion, he was
arrested.

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In December, Graham
Gund started a third version of
his new multimillion-dollar
house in Cambridge, Mass.,
tearing out the foundation for
the second time afier deciding,
that he really wanted the
house to fook like the first ver-
sion, which he had bulldozed
down eight months earlier
after it was nearly completed.
And _ in January, a

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the

Newfoundland company
announced it was taking reser-
vations, at $35,000 (U.S.) a
seat, fora 12-hour sightseeing,
tour in three-person sub-

ines, 2% miles down to the
sunken Titante.

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According ro a December
Orange County Xegister story,
Mark W. Dziga of Long
Beach, Calif., had just filed an
employment — discrimination
lawsuit against his former
company, Boeing, for firing
him because he chose to work
in the nude at the office on
Thanksgiving Day 1998 when
he thought he was alone. A
security guard turned hiny in
for violating the company’s
dress code, and Dziga charged
that his subsequent termina-
tion was illegal in that Bocing
should have provided “reason-
able accommodation” to his
religion of shamanism.

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In December, the wife of a
Cambodian undersecretary of
state was accused of dumping
five litres of acid on top of the
18-year-old girlfriend of her
husband. And in October, a
43-year-old woman in Lake
Ronkonkoma, N.Y., was
charged with assaule for
allegedly taking a samurai
sword and slashing off two fin-
gertips of a woman she found
in bed with her husband.

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In December, a 36-year-
old, 280-pound man_ in
Pontiac, Mich., originally
questioned by police because
his stereo was too loud but
then arrested on an outstand-
ing DUI warraat, snapped his
handcuffs off, creating a
jagged edge, which he used to

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cut a hole in his stomach so he
could pull his organs out to
throw at rescue workers.
“Reaching in and then tug-
ging on steff, and I mean tug-
ging,” is how Sheriff's Sgt.
Matt Norman described the
man’s attempts.

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In February, prominent
French chef Jean Bardet had
his restaurant in the city of

rs climinated from the
prominent Michelin Guide
2000 based on charges that his
superior regional vintages
were just cheap supermarket
wine and that he had vastly
inflated the uniqueness of his
sea bass, veal, cheese and
asparagus. Also in February,
Quebec inspectors shut down
the Comme Chez Soi restau-
rant in Granby temporarily
after it was caught re-serving
customers’ discarded tartar
sauce, coleslaw, bread and fon-
due, and not just from its own
restaurant but from take-out
food left behind in a motel
owned by the restaurateur.

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The Connecticut Supreme
Court ruled in October that
workers have the right to
express themselves on public

issues but that Sikorsky
Aircraft was justified in firing
employee Gonzalo Cotto,
who had = abjected to
Sikorsky’s pro-Gulf War stance
by stomping on a workplace
US. tiag and blowing his nose
on it. And Liz Anderson filed
a federal discrimination com-
plaint against employer USF
Logistics in Indianapolis in
November after the company
ordered her to stop telling co-
workers to “have a blessed
day.”

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A town council in Oslo,
Norway, OK’d Muslim loud-
speakered prayers on Fridays
provided atheists had a sepa-
rate chance to shout “God
does not exist.” Protesting
women formed “Menstruai
Avengers” to challenge a tax
that covers feminine hygiene .
products bur not condoms,
sunscreen or incontinence
pads (Sydney, Australia).

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And a 23-year-old man
obsessed with the film “The
Blair Witch Project” er

ty to strangling -
eee because i insisted the -
movie was fiction (Grand
Haven, Mich.}.

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