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Mervyn Kopp, THOUSAND OAKS, CALIF...
...calamity that launched a thousand Ring of Fire jokes: Johnny Cash's 13,880-sq.-ft. lakeside house has burned down. It's a loss to music history and a blow to the renovation plans of the house's new owner--the Bee Gees' Barry Gibb. But Cash's neighbor, Oak Ridge Boys singer Richard Sterban, sees a higher power behind the disaster, telling the AP, "Maybe it's the good Lord's way to make sure that it was only Johnny's house." SCORE...
...patois—someone lame is a “chach,” the physical act of love is to “juice.” Despite the seemingly niche topics and potentially alienating vocabulary, the site developed a following, at one point as large as a thousand readers per day.On the back of the blog’s success, Bressman landed a job at The New York Observer. He started off blogging for the paper, inexplicably, for its Bridal Blog. Knowing little about weddings, Bressman wrote about “love in general” and found...
...financial troubles that the Mock Trial Team is forced to endure. “I am very disappointed in the University—I find it a little bit outrageous that the University has this tremendous endowment and can’t manage to throw a few thousand dollars our way,” he says...
Monday's announcement by the Pentagon that it may call up to 13,000 National Guard troops for duty in Iraq was something of a milestone. Several thousand of these troops would be going to Iraq for a second time - the first return trip for large units of the National Guard since the war began...