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Seattle is not the first city to outlaw belligerent begging. New York City prohibits begging on the subways, although enforcement is sporadic. California cities rely on a state law against "accosting" people for money in public. Last April, Portland, Ore., passed legislation similar to Seattle's. Rather than specifically target begging, however, Portland forbids offensive physical contact or behavior that might cause a person reasonably to fear such contact. Unlike Seattle's law, Portland's solution has stirred little controversy. "It's a law that applies equally to obnoxious upper-class people coming out of a bar and hassling women...
...handsome ex-housewife in Yelm, Wash., who has performed for thousands at a price of $150 each per session. She speaks for Ramtha, a 35,000-year-old warrior who reports that he once lived on Atlantis. He has even dictated a book, I Am Ramtha, published in Portland, Ore., by Beyond Words Publishing and illustrated with photographs of Knight going into a trance on The Merv Griffin Show. Sample words of Ramthan wisdom: "Who be I? I am a notorious entity. I have that which is called a reputation. Know you what that is? Controversial, and I do what...
Hard to believe, but Paul Simon was, and his mother saved the yellowed newspaper clipping to prove it. Simon, then three, was voted the "prettiest boy baby" by his hometown paper, the Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard...
...topic of Social Security cuts is such a hot item the negotiators refer to it as "the unmentionable." Asked who made the suggestion, Sen. Bob Packwood (R-Ore.) said, "I think the Senate chaplain left...
...making the rounds in San Francisco's financial district (What do you call a 28-year-old trader in suspenders? Hey, waiter!) to the hand-lettered sign in the window of Cafe Chameleon, a Manhattan nightclub: SO YOUR BROKER'S A LITTLE BROKER? Says Edward Singer, 62, a Portland, Ore., broker: "These younger money managers had become godlike in giving advice...