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...more interesting people we talked to was the lead guitarist for Temptress, a cross-dressing band whose members have appeared on Oprah, Sally Jessy Raphael and Geraldo. Chuck (pictured below, the brunette to the right of Captain Kirk) told us that Temptress's agent performed genetic experiments on the band as part of their contract. "One day we were on stage playing a gig," he said, "and suddenly we all turned into women...
...ORDINARY BOY HAS WON AN EXTRAORDINARY victory. After two days of emotionally charged -- and televised -- testimony, Florida Circuit Judge Thomas S. Kirk granted Gregory Kingsley, 12, his dearest wish: to be "divorced" from his natural parents and adopted by George and Lizabeth Russ, the foster family he has come to love...
...spent just seven months with his mother. While a weeping Rachel Kingsley listened, he recalled how she often came home drunk and kept a stash of marijuana "in a brown box on a table in the living room." At the end, the courtroom broke into applause as . Judge Kirk announced, "Gregory, you're the son of Mr. and Mrs. Russ at this moment." Then the boy's lawyer presented him with a blue jersey bearing his new name, Shawn Russ, and the number 9. He will be the Russ's ninth child...
...will be up to a new jury to decide whether George was guilty of criminal perjury. Steven Kirk, the original foreman, said his fellow jurors had found George evasive, duplicitous and dissembling; they could not agree on conviction because they chose to wrestle with the narrow issue of George's "technical" responsibility to Congress. But Gillen used expert testimony and thousands of newly declassified documents to prove his point: that key officials of the CIA had blindly served the White House in circumventing Congress by providing aid to the Nicaraguan contras in defiance of the Boland amendment. Concedes...
Three times the jury deliberating the Iran-contra perjury trial of former CIA spy chief Clair George trooped into the courtroom to report an impasse, and three times Judge Royce Lamberth sent them back out to keep trying. Finally, after almost six days of fruitless deliberation, foreman Steven Kirk said his panel was totally deadlocked on all nine counts -- from perjury to giving false statements to Congress. "As a citizen," said Kirk, a Washington consultant, "I expect senior government officials like Clair George to be more forthcoming to Congress. As a juror, I felt compelled to give him the benefit...