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AMONG RECENT names in the
news: a Louisiana jailer recently
suspended after being accused of
buying crack cocaine — Billy
Blow; an operator of a suicide hot-
line in Amsterdam — Jan Hilarius;
# Ph.D. candidate in demography at
the University of California,
Berkeley — Long Wang: a New
Orleans writer — Quo Vadis
Gexbreaux; the ‘co-creator of a just-
released map of the Georgetown
section of Washington; D.C. —~
Outerbridge Horsey.

Frances Bobnar of Adamsburg.
Pennsylvania, filed a lawsuit
against the Pennsylvania Lottery
Commission in March, claiming
that she and family members have
spent more than $150,000 on lottery
tickets during the last 10 years but
have never won. . are

In February, Bernadette French,
36, won a $1.1 million lawsuit
-against the ‘Wilmington Hospital in
Deleware. French, who suffers from
‘manic depression, gouged her cyes
out and then-:claimed the hospital
staff was. negligent in-allowing her

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An AIDS activist organization in
Madras, India, made a public plea
last month that eunuchs convening
for their annual festival near the
city later in the month use condoms
during their wild celebration. Many,
but fewer than half, of the country’s
400,000 eunuchs retain their penis-

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Network estimated that 10,000 sex

acts would take place at the close of

the [S-day gathering. An AIDS
activist said that because most
eunuchs were recruited by force,
they are “angry” and show little
sexual restraint.

Tom Stafford, of imission Viejo,
California, won $8,500 in a lawsuit
against a local golf course last
November. Stafford hit an errant
shot that ricocheted off a steel pole
and smacked him in the forehead.

Former paralegal) Merrell
Williams, 52, added a claim to his
disability lawsuit against his former
Louisville, Kentucky law firm,
Wyatt Tarrant & Combs. Although
he admitted that a 29-year smoking
habit contributed to his heart prob-
lems, he also claimed that while
working for the firm’s tobacco
clients, he was “horrified” to learn
about complicity between tobacco
companies !o suppress data on the
dangers of smoking. He added that
he suffered stress, knowing he had
to keep such information secret.

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