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PATRICK J. Murphy, deputy
superitendeat of schools in
Cambridge, Mass., resigned in
December after admitting that
he solicited two of his’ staff
members to write papers on
Shakespeare for his 19-year-
old daughter's literature class
at Stonehill College in nearby
Easton, Mass. The scheme
blew up on Murphy when one
of the papers received a D, and
he wried to get the employee to
rewrite it,

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Among the new dog
designer fashions unveiled at
the 12th Part Pet Friend
Festival in) November in
Bangkok: a red-and-black,
Michael Jackson-style military
coat; a yellow-and-black bike
racing jacket with bike-styie
helniet; a silver space suit-like
cape; and a blue silk gown.
According to designer Vasinee
Apornpanit, the biggest mar-
ket by far for dressing up dogs
is Japan, where pet owners are
now asking for cell phones and
other high-tech gadgets to be
sewn onto the dogs’ outfits. |

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Schoois that need zero-tol-
erance policies for teachers: In
October, a first-grade teacher
in Rialto, Calif., taped a dis-
ruptive student’s head to the
wall of the classroom. And sev-
enth-grade teacher Carrie
White was accused in October
of flinging a dictionary and a
calculator at two disruptive
students in Lodi, Ohio. And in
June, high school substiute
teacher Steven M. Catena was
fired in Keansburg, N.J., after
reports chat he wrapped one
student in masking tape and
butcher paper in class and
implored students to give
another classmate a “swirly”
(dunking in a toilet). And in
Durban, South Africa, in May,
a high school teacher and a
principal pulled guns and
opened fire on students who
were protesting higher fees.

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Inexplicable: In an Auyust
dispatch from Katy, ‘Texas
(near Houston), the San
Francisco Chronicle featured
Forbidden) Gardens, PH.
Poon's 80-acre, $20 milion,
1/20th = repfica oof the
Forbidder City in Beijing
(shown as life-size in the 1987
film The Last Emperor),
“what must: be,” according
to the Chronicle, “ene of the
world’s least known theme
parks.” The reporter noted
only one vehicle in the parking
jot and only a group tour of
16 kids in attendance.

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After arresting — Teri
Harrington, 31, and Deana
Watson, 28, in September,
Sacramento, Calif., police told
reporters that the women had
apparently stolen large num-
bers of items trom local stores
at least 14 times in the previ-
ous two weeks, casually walk-
ing out each time with 20-gal-
fon bins filled with clothes,
videos, CDs, games and cos-
metics.

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In Windsor, Ontario, in
August, the small wheel of a
man’s wicelchair got stuck on
sailroad tracks as a train was
heard in the distance, and a
female passerby in a wheel-
chair rolled out to help him,
but her smail wheel gor stuck
in the same rut. Both suffered
minor injuries when the

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completely stop.

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First things first: In
October, Argentina exiled for-
mer Paraguayan military
leader Luis Oviedo to remote
Tierra del Fuego for violating
the rules of his political asy-
lum, which it had given him
six months earlier. Oviedo had
unsuccessfully requested a stay
of his banishment, arguing
that he had recently under-
gone a hair transplant and felt
the windy, sunny weather in
Tierra del Fuego would dis-

rupt his new plugs.

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In November, Robert
Horton, 52, walked into a
Phoenix courthouse carrying
his wife, Belinda, who was
bound at the legs, arms and
mouth with grey duct tape.
He told a security officer that
she was duc in court that day
on a charge of assaulting a
police officer, that he had
posted bail for her, that she
had threatened to skip the
court hearing, and that he had
taped and lugged her down-
town to make sure he got his
bail money back. Unknown to
the Hortons, the charge
against Belinda had been dis-
missed earlier that day, but
prosecutors are still deciding
whether to file charges against
Robert for kidnapping his
wife.

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Adding to the list of scories
that were formerly weird but
which now occur with such
frequency thet they must be
retired from circulation: (39)
Amateur videographers who
ingeniously hide cameras to
capture their subjects nude
and/or intimate, such 2s the
Skokie, Ill, landlord in July
and whoever installed the two
video cameras in a men’s
shower room at Yosemite
National Park in July. And
(40) (alas, sadly, for it has been
a News of the Weird staple)
animal hoarders, —_ usually
women with dozens or hun-
dreds of cats who stun the
neighbours with the smell and
health inspectors with the
massive feces buildup, such as
the three women in separate
instances this year in
Edmonton, Alberta, another
in Pittsburgh in) December
(feces stored in animal carri-
ers), and another in St.
Anthony, Minn., in August
(270 rabbits and “knee deep”
feces).

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Also, in the Last Month: A
48-year-old — ex-cop who
played “Officer Friendly”
teaching kids to avoid
strangers was convicted of
indecent exposure in a shop-
ing mall (St. Paul, Minn.).
‘wo inmates who escaped
from a prison in Tanzania
soon gave up after being
forced up a tree by liens.

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