Word: btw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drew a momentary frown from the president, who had avoided directly criticizing McCurdy.) "Are they going to play it safe, or be bold in taking on the Republicans?" Carney asks. "The signal Clinton issued was that they're going to be bold and challenge them for the swing vote." BTW: White House officials tell Carney the president is planning a major public address on these issues for the middle of next week.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...
...troika (Larry Fine and "Curly Joe'" DeRita). The reason: the grandson and daughter of the Stooge-in-chief, Moe Howard, had stiffed the others on revenues from Stooge-related products. Jean DeRita, Curly Joe's widow, now gets almost $1.6 million, and Fine's grandchildren receive about $500,000. BTW: The next stage of the trial, punitive damages -- ouch! -- began today.Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...
...been arrested after providing $1,500 prostitutes for policemen posing as businessmen, slammed her hands on the table in frustration. She faces a maximum of six years in prison. (The trial shed no light on the identities of her supposedly-famous clients, since the judge ruled that information irrelevant.) BTW: The courtroom heat's not off yet: Fleiss and her father face a federal court trial in January on related charges of money laundering and tax evasion.Post your opinion on theCrimebulletin board...
...leave an open cage, the 54-year-old PTL preacher chose to spend his first day of freedom inside the his Asheville, N.C. home, where he'd been legally confined since July. His daughter, Tammy Sue Chapman, told reporters she'd like him to join her singing ministry. BTW: While Bakker did time, his wife, Tammy Faye, divorced him and married Roe Messner, the chief builder at Heritage USA, the Bakkers' one-time Christian theme park.Post your opinion on theCrimebulletin board...
...office wanted, post cards will be 20 cents -- up a penny -- and extra ounces will stay at 23 cents. The downside: second- and third-class mail -- including magazines and newspapers -- go up 14 percent, Parcel Post jumps 18 percent and the special library rate increases a painful 70 percent. BTW: The flat first-class stamp rate debuted in 1885 at 2 cents an ounce, cleared 10 cents in 1974 and rose from 25 cents to the current 29 cents...