TIDBITS & OUTRAGES
TIDBITS & OUTRAGES THE FEDERAL WITLESS PROGRAM The United States Attorney’s office in Pikeville, Kentucky mistakenly released years’ worth of information about informants, sealed indictments,...
...The General Accounting Office recently discovered that the Veterans Affairs department has been sending benefit checks to more than 1,200 dead veterans-including 100 who’ve been dead for 10 years...
...WOULD YOU BELIEVE WE WERE JUST FILLING IN FOR ALLSTATE...
...The General Accounting Office recently discovered that the Veterans Affairs department has been sending benefit checks to more than 1,200 dead veterans-including 100 who’ve been dead for 10 years...
...WELL, I HAVE A ROOMMATE AND I’M WEARING STRIPES AND . . . Inmates at a county jail in Leesburg, Florida ran up a $20,000 bill calling phone sex services...
...TIDBITS & OUTRAGES THE FEDERAL WITLESS PROGRAM The United States Attorney’s office in Pikeville, Kentucky mistakenly released years’ worth of information about informants, sealed indictments, and federally protected witnesses when it sold a businessman old computer equipment containing unerased files...
...QUE1 DUMBAGE After distributing 180,000 copies of its newest dictionary, the French publisher Larousse discovered that it states that the most deadly wild mushroom in France and two other highly poisonous varieties are safe to eat...
...THAT’S THE SPIRIT Just days after the Persian Gulf crisis hit, the Allstate life insurance company adopted a new rule: It’s now rejecting all applications from military personnel shipping out to the Middle East...
...THE RIGORS OF REPORTING In a column on life in Baghdad after the imposition of United Nations’ sanctions, Rowland Evans and Robert Novak drove home the severity of the situation this way: “With rising inflation, a bottle of middling French wine, Longchamps rose, priced at 44 dinars, costs $145.20...
...WOULD YOU BELIEVE WE WERE JUST FILLING IN FOR ALLSTATE...
...We paid...
...DESCRIBE MYSELF...
Vol. 22 • October 1990 • No. 9
