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...Some of us were in the habit of mooning people,” Stone said. “I have to admit, Al taught us everything we know about mooning...
...former housemaid at his Palm Beach, Fla., mansion, that for four years, beginning in 1998, she illegally supplied him with vast quantities of the prescription drugs OxyContin, hydrocodone and Lorcet. She also claims that Limbaugh went through detox twice in New York during that time to break the habit. Cline, 42, has given audiotapes and other purported evidence to the state's attorney's office of Palm Beach County, and Limbaugh is now a subject of investigation, a source close to the investigation confirmed. The source added that the voice on the tapes "does indeed" sound like Limbaugh...
...Skeptics note that Pakistan has a habit of announcing dramatic antiterrorism moves to coincide with high-level meetings with U.S. officials. At the time of the raid, President Pervez Musharraf had recently returned from U.N. headquarters in New York City, Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali was meeting with President Bush in Washington, and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, who had earlier questioned whether Musharraf had the support of the entire Pakistani military, was preparing a trip to Islamabad...
...first 100 days in office, he told a national TV audience he was under so much pressure that "I feel like I can't do my job as President. I feel a sense of crisis." Hardly words to inspire confidence, but public self-flagellation seems to be a Roh habit: in 1994 he authored a widely read book in which he apologized for beating his wife. Though the presidency is a bully pulpit, it is not a bully confessional, and Roh's expressions of self-doubt are no longer playing well with many voters...
...team whose best player, Ted Williams, will remain on ice for at least the remainder of the post-season—is the sort of quirk that many pick up in their college years and come to regret passionately upon graduation. But unlike a gauche tattoo or a heroin habit, Sox support can be tucked under the rug easily right now, before the shame of defeat strikes its certain blow. There’s still time not to be a loser...