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...home to the Army's 15,000-member 3rd Infantry Division. The 3rd ID is called the Rock of the Marne for its heroism in World War I--a legacy that makes its troops all the more indignant about the outrages at Abu Ghraib. Says Blackman: "This is a canker sore...
...CALL US; WE?LL CALL YOU: "They?re the canker sore on the lip of humanity," says the publisher. "They interrupt dinners, down time, and always call at the wrong time." Of course, the "they" in question is telephone solicitors. In October, Warner will publish a paperback original, "Fun with Phone Solicitors: 50 Ways to Get Even!" by Robert Harris. The author offers such techniques as: The Telephone Ruse: Pretend to transfer your tormentor and then press several buttons on your phone The Verbatim Variation: Repeat everything the caller says in a sing-song voice The Drop-the-Phone Drill...
...Graham wants to stretch out the taxes citrus growers must pay for the $83 million they got in federal aid when they lost trees to citrus canker. Citrus canker has been sweeping through Florida and the only way farmers can stop it is to cut down the trees. Graham wants his farmers to have a longer time to pay taxes on the compensation they get from the federal government for their loss...
...Slim Redskins -1 over JETS: The canker on L.I. Slim?s return to his winning ways last week remains those floundering Jets. So he?s turning against the Tuna and going with the red-hot Redskins in a New York sweep. And that Rick Mirer was so good at Notre Dame...
...book, "Monica's Story," as having dubbed Lewinsky "Big Mac" while at John Thomas Dye Elementary school in Bel Air, Calif. According to the text, the slight "was made all the more painful, because at the time she was harboring a schoolgirl crush on him." It became a "canker in her psyche." FM caught up with Spalding last week...