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...Polanski, once described by Kenneth Tynan as "the five foot Pole you wouldn't want to touch with a ten-foot pole," was charged with drugging and sodomizing 13-year-old Samantha Gailery 26 years ago this month in the jacuzzi of Jack Nicholson's house. (The transcript of Gaillery's 1977 deposition can be read on thesmokinggun.com.) He fled the country when a plea bargain he'd negotiated was in jeopardy of being overturned. But Hollywood loves to forgive old reprobates; it is a way of congratulating them and its own sense of liberality. In 1972 Oscar welcomed back...
...most days throwing horseshoes they've made by bending tent spikes. Some do chin-ups on a 2-by-4 hung from a wooden frame next to their tent. Or they just relax by lounging on a wooden bench they built. Behind the bench, a sign on a pole reads BUS STOP. "What bus are you waiting for?" someone asks. "We're thinking of a loop," says Lance Corporal Josh Hotvet, 21, a Marine Reservist from Albany, N.Y. "Baghdad and then home...
...life-size replica, complete with hollows, teeth and fossil-colored paint, was en route from Los Angeles when someone walked on top of its carrying crate and fell through. The skull had been welded onto a metal stand, and the impact sent a metal pole straight through the model. Luckily, the T-Rex skull has so many natural hollows that the pole simply went through the holes. The unfortunate interloper also was unharmed. Professor of Geology and of Biology Charles Marshall, who teaches Dinosaurs, received word of the accident before the shipment arrived and was relieved to see that...
...matter how many foul-pole-hugging Game Six homers the Crimson may hit (witness the two Penn upsets and a miracle comeback against Dartmouth in 2000), its legacy—like the Red Sox’s—will always be one of hope giving way to heartbreak...
...trying to think of the illest rhymes that I possibly could,” he says. “For example, I was bagging change the other night, and while I was walking to the bank to get more penny papers, I thought of ‘My pickle pole was harder than a nickel roll...