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Sunday, July 30, 2000 — North Shore News - 11

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EIGHT farmers in the town of Nemaha, lowa (population 112), have taught themselves to perform various square: dancing routines while seated on, and precisely maneuver- ing, their tractors, according, to a June San Francisco Chronicle dispatch from the heartland.

However, an apparent problem for the farmers is thar all are males, while square-dancing is a couples

y. Thus, four of the dancers operate their tractors while in calico skirts, under the apparent belief that cross- dressing is more acceptable than having an overily same- sex dance partner.

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Carithers was suspended from the presti- gious Latin Academy in Boston after complying with a class assignment to write a horror story. In Carithers’ tale, a menacing student cut off the teacher’s hand with a chain saw, which the real teacher interpreted as a threat. Said Carichers in defense, “If ] wrote a student killed his taxi driver, that doesn’t have the same effect.” And in January, senior Sarah Boman was suspended from Bluestem High School in Leon, Kan., for the rest of the year after complying with an assignment to create art that

‘emphasizes an idea, rather

than an object. She drew a large mural of jumbled words representing, she said, the

man, but that, too, was inter- preted by the teacher as a threat. (After appeals, both suspensions were lifted.)

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In February in Providence, BLL, the family of the late beater William J. Hussey, 55, tiled a wrongful death lawsuit against the city, arguing that Hussev’s fatal heart attack was caused by Assistant Harbor Master Paul J. Williams during a 1998 incident. However, according to police reports, all Williams had done was to yell at Hussey, who was maneuver- ing his boat without required navigation lights. Hussey’s nearly last words were, to Williams, “Mind your own (expletive deleted) business.”

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February, former go municipal treasurer Miriam Santos was released from a prison work camp near Pekin, IIl., when her federal extortion conviction was overturned on appeal. She met immediately — with reporters and announced that she would try to regain her old job at the next opportuni- ty and said, about her crime, “Foam probably the first woman to go to jail (merely)

for PMS-ing.”

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900 Mark Merrill, 38, filed a jawsuit in February in Gary, Ind., against Donald Trump, alleging that the reason Merrill turned to bank rob- bery (in Peotone, HL, in 1998

was excessive debt, in that the floating Trump Casino in Gary fed his gambling, addic-

tion by enticing him to wager, even offering him tree trips to Las Vegas.

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