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NO COMMENT growth industry From a story on penis-enlargement surgery in The Wall Street Journal: "Frank Whitehead, a Los Angeles entrepreneur who had an operation to both lengthen and widen his...
...I'm not pandering to hatred.' Bono said...
...Sometimes I think it's like they've all been raised by animals.'" tough love An Associated Press story datelined Port Washington, Wisconsin: "A sixteen-year-old high-school student spent a night in jail because his mother did not respond to requests to provide proof he had received immunization shots...
...They cuffed me,' Jacob said after his release...
...It's nothing else, but at least I want to honestly say that to you and throw aside all the legal rhetoric...
...If we're going to do the Playmate stories, let's make them a little more intellectual.'" civics lesson From an article on work camps for Washington prisoners in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "With a breathtaking view of Mount Rainier, the ferry ride from Steila-coom to McNeil Island obliterates all notions of a traditional boot camp...
...But Janet Kallas said her son had all his shots and she thought the thing had been resolved...
...I'm not homophobic...
...affirmative action, r.i.p...
...The company still intended to crack down, said vice president Ellen Merlo, but 'we didn't say starting today.'" the devil's handiwork An item in the Ozark Gazette of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on a visit to the area by Kathie Lee Gif-ford, the talk-show host who was embarrassed by revelations that sweatshop workers make her line of retail clothing: "Gifford, in town for the annual Wal-Mart stockholders' meeting, blamed a 'force of an evil nature" for attacking both Wal-Mart and herself for their mutual successes...
...I go out on a limb more than I did before with business,' he says...
...After a four-day engagement, they wed in the store's layaway department before friends, family, and store employees, who got a thirty-minute break to watch the ceremony...
...A routine driver's license check showed that Jacob [Kallas] was wanted on a warrant from Ozaukee County...
...In October, responding to a helpful list of such retailers in Minnesota sent to the company by the state attorney general, Philip Morris declined to act on it...
...I'm not a bigot...
...Laughlin is one of two women who administer the Work Ethic Camp...
...T was so confused.' . . . Records at Homestead High School, which Jacob attends, said he had not received his state-required second shots for measles, mumps, and rubella...
...NO COMMENT growth industry From a story on penis-enlargement surgery in The Wall Street Journal: "Frank Whitehead, a Los Angeles entrepreneur who had an operation to both lengthen and widen his penis last year . . . says that the procedure "has changed my whole outlook on life...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...Now [when] I go into business meetings, I'm thinking, If you guys had just half of what I have...
...pressures of office From the Chicago Tribune: "Representative Sonny Bono, Republican of California, whose daughter is a lesbian, says he understands gay-rights activists who support same-sex marriage, but he just 'can't handle' the idea now...
...smoke and mirrors From the Daily Sparks Tribune of Reno, Nevada: "During the summer of 1995, Philip Morris ran newspaper ads promising to crack down on retailers that sell cigarettes to kids...
...How to sit properly for females...
...A police officer stopped him because the van he was driving, his mother's, had expired license plates...
...T simply can't handle it...
...challenging work Deborah Norville, host of the tabloid television show Inside Edition, interviewed in the Chicago Tribune: "Norville said she's no Pollyanna when it comes to stories that she calls 'the centerfold stuff.' 'What I've tried to do is bring a certain sensitivity to them,' the former Today show fixture said...
...An item in the "Police Log" section of the Harvard University Gazette: "May 14: Racial epitaphs were written in the entryway of Thayer Hall...
...And I blew it off.' . . . Jacob was immunized in 1990...
...Roger Cassell, the furniture-department manager, and Jeanne Ferguson, a shoe saleswoman, met on the job...
...the Work Ethic Camp program manager, describing her daily commute...
...So much of what we're talking about is stuff parents never taught their kids...
...one-stop shop An item in USA Today: "Better known for merchandise than marriages, a Frederick, Maryland, Wal-Mart hosted the wedding of two of its employees Friday...
...I sometimes close my eyes, put my sunglasses on, and imagine I'm on a yacht,' said Karla Laughlin...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...I think it breaks down to whether you're able to handle something or whether you're not able to handle something.'" who knew...
...Headline in The Raleigh News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina, on a story about Sergeant William Kreutzer Jr., who gunned down nineteen other soldiers at Fort Bragg: Soldier told Army he'd kill...
...the barbaric behavior of males, the burping and farting...
...But when she continued to get letters, including one summoning her to court, Kallas said, 'I forgot...
...reliable news source An item on the table of contents of the worldwide newsletter Latinamerica Press: "Part Three of a Monthly Series on Disgraced Latin American Presidents...
Vol. 60 • August 1996 • No. 8
