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...weight room. As a Beverly Hills High School senior, the Los Angeles Times reported last week, Abramoff became the first member of the school's 2700 Club, for lifting a combined total of 2,700 lbs. in the power squat, dead lift, bench press and clean and jerk. He was one of the North Side kids, from the more privileged side of the Santa Monica Boulevard line that separated the superrich from the merely wealthy. Abramoff's father Frank had transplanted the family from Atlantic City, N.J., when he became a top executive at the then exclusive Diners Club credit...
...deployments can strain marriages, are working on the issue. The Army has raised funding to $3.6 million a year for initiatives to help troops deal with the stresses, and its "family life" chaplains will expand two programs: "Pick a Partner"?troops call it "How Not to Marry a Jerk"?targets single soldiers, while another aims at couples with teens. Chaplain (Major) Robert Nay says his mission is clear: "If I help the soldiers with their personal lives, it will help them focus while they are out on their missions. As the saying goes, 'A soldier enlists...
...solves the mystery of how Kelly Clarkson unpinned herself from the scarlet A (for American Idol winner) that nearly doomed her career before it started. She works with strong producers, picks crisp, up-tempo songs that mine a slender emotional vein (to summarize: Why did you leave me, you jerk?) and sings them with an understatement alien to most of her peers. It's an (almost) guiltless pleasure...
...Wild And Crazy Guys” on their song “Brooklyn-Queens,” but their peers in EPMD have a whole song called “The Steve Martin,” all about his funky dance in “The Jerk.” Talk about an unlikely hip-hop icon...
...Professor Mansfield, you once referred to women’s studies as “a little ladies’ sewing circle.” How do real men feel about circles of women? Mansfield: They feel…all around! Heh. No, seriously, circle jerk. Ring around the rosie and shit...