IN APRIL, University of Toronto
English professor Eleanor Cook was
awarded grants totaling around
$85,000 to spend over the next two-
and-a-half years studying “the struc-
ture and function” of the riddle,

Said Cvok, “1 want to think about
long-term patterns in riddles... and
the long-term decisions in our lives.”

On the same day (Oct. 17), the
U.S. government announced it
would reduce funding, by $55 inil-
lion, for food banks and other pro-
grams that feed poverty-stricken
Americans, and spend $47 million in
new funds to create makework jobs
and job training for the much-reviled
Haiti police force.

Atlanta police Det. Chris Brown,
commenting in July on the hapless-
ness of a bank robber who walks
with the aid of a cane and who gave
himself up with no resistance imme-
diately after the chemical dye pack
in his money bag exploded outside
the bank: “I don't think he had a
plan.”

Doylestown, Pennsylvania —
Adoption agency official Mary
Graves, in a case in which a girl had
been taken from her father after the
mother passed away, testified in
August that she favored keeping the
girl with the adopted family. *

With her father, Graves said,
“She would have none of the bene-
fits but all of the disadvantages of a
mother who is dead.”

Christine McKatherine, 43, who
staged a 24-hour civil-rights protest
inside her car on a Chicago street
after the car was immobilized with a
Denver boot for having 115 unpaid
parking tickets: “I’m tired of people
- getting harassed in Chicago.”

‘Early in the moming on Oct. 30,

_4.man described by the New York

Daily News as a “career criminal”

was apprehended in the middle of a

burglary at an upscale Fire Island,
N-Y., home.

: The residents had arisen to check

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out noises in the house but found no
one, However, in the vicinity of a
closet door, they heard flatulence
and discovered Richard Magpiong.
56, hiding in a closet, They held him
until police arrived.

A New York City Transit
Authority spokesman, describing in
August how his agency would han-
die female toplessness in subways
after a state court ruled that women
had the same public nudity rights as
men: “If (the topless femules) were
violating any other rules, li
on a subway bench top!

a cigarette, then we would take
action.”

. The Daily Oklahoman newspaper
tecently quoted state Sen. John
Monks as once arguing, while
defending the “sport” of cockfight-
ing, “The first thing the communists
do when they take over a country is
to outlaw cockfighting.”

In a prepared statement released
in September, the British firm
Proteus International, inanufacturer
ofa new chemical neutering drug for
animals, said the product works by °
stopping sperm production. ‘

“Ie also shrinks the testicles,” the
firm stated, “but arguably it is better
to have shrunken testicles than no
testicles at all.”

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