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Wednesday, January 20, 1999 — North Shore News — 41

Grad student’s nest-egg broken

INDIANAPOLIS graduate
student Lac] Desmond, 27,
filed a complaint against
the Ameritrade discount
brokerage tn) November,
chiming that the company
should indemnify him) tor
his $40,000 medical-school
nest-ege that he lost in self
service Internet tradiag just
betore the July stock mar-
ket plunge.

Desmond cagerly bor
rowed money to buy stocks
“on margin.” admittedly
without reading
Ameritrade’s special mar
gin-trading instructions.
He said he “never dreame |
had anv possibility of losing
all my money.”

A judge in British
Columbia declared Ronald
Brown, So, an “irre:
deemable drunk,’ thus

cerufving him oto the
Canada Pension Plan as ch-
gible for monthly disabiliny
bonetits.

Evidence presented to
the court revealed that
Brown has been continual
Ivo fired from jobs tor
drunkenness, including
two jobs working for his
brother.

In his recent divoree,
Brown received about
$18,000 US in lump-sam
alimony trom) his ex wife
but withdrew a request for
an additional S440 US
monthly expressly for
boose.

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A California District
Court of Appeal has ruled
that John M. Van Dyke's
1994 Jawsuit: against the
operator of the Bear
Mountain ski slope could
proceed in spite of a state

D. Holschuh that he lapsed
into crime only because he
had been powerless to tight
otfa voodoo hey placed on
him by a former lover in
New York.

Osoba said he was
plagued bv dreams in
which the woman demand-
eee ed such Jarge sums of
money that drug-dealing
was his only way our.

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law barring most skier law-
suits. .

Van Dyke was) perma-
nendy paralyzed from the
waist down after smashing
Inco a steel post holding ap
the sign “Be Aware -- Ski
With Care.”

Urologist Roberto
Trulli told reporters in Rio
de Janeiro that the werage
flaccid Brazilian penis
shrank by two centimeters
in the past year, due largely
ro unemployment fears.

Weeerbury, Conneticutt
— Shawn Ervin, 36, filed a
lawsuit last summer against
Red Roof Inns over a 1996
injury that fractured his fin-
ger and ultimately led to
the removal of part of it.
Ohio — He injured it ac a
Hartford Inn when a bed’s
headboard, which he said
was flimsily nailed to the
wall, came down on his fin-
ger while he was having sex
with his girlfriend.

Columbus,
Olakunle A. Osoba, 50, has
been convicted of heroin
trafficking and sentenced
to 30 months in prison, but
not before he tried to per-
suade federal judge John

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