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...neither is Tonya Drake, 35, a mother of four. She had no criminal record or history of drug use before she made the unfortunate decision to mail a package for a friend in exchange for $44. The package's contents were unknown to her, but happened to contain 200 grams of crack cocaine. She was caught, threw herself on the mercy of the court much like Vali did, and is now serving 10 years in federal prison on a "possession with intent to distribute" conviction. Drake is also black and poor, and has probably never seen Harvard...
...like wearing shorts and skirts that show my stomach," says Tonya Rodriguez, an eighth-grader at Seven Springs Middle School in New Port Richey, Fla. "I have a really flat stomach, and I like it." Her principal, Roni Sushko, isn't quite so charmed. She has cited Tonya, 13, for dress-code violations eight times since the beginning of the school year, suspending her on two of those occasions. Tonya's infractions include wearing miniskirts and spaghetti-strap tops, which run afoul of regulations that the school's county instituted last year. The new code specifies that all skirts...
Sherri Spillane--Mickey Spillane's ex-wife and the talent agent who has represented Joey Buttafuoco, John Wayne Bobbitt, Tonya Harding, Kato Kaelin, Rudy from Survivor and Judge Ito impersonator Randall Tamayei--got the idea to sign Tony Enos, the guy who drove the Ryder truck. Actually, what happened was that Amanda Ripley, who sits down the hall from me, called Spillane and asked if she had signed anyone from the Florida scandal, which inspired Spillane to call Enos. So, really, it's a beautiful story about an intrepid reporter, a scrappy agent and democracy itself coming together to create...
...weeks earlier, she had a terrible start, then chased down the pack, nipping fellow American Inger Miller at the wire. When Jones is slow out of the blocks, she wins. When she's fast, there's no contest. Her rivals are left without solutions, short of finding a Tonya Harding among them to execute some kneecapping. In Brussels the women hung around after the race muttering about a quick gun, doing what they could to keep their heads in the game...
...weeks earlier, she had a terrible start, then chased down the pack, nipping fellow American Inger Miller at the wire. When Jones is slow out of the blocks, she wins. When she's fast, there's no contest. Her rivals are left without solutions, short of finding a Tonya Harding among them to execute some kneecapping. In Brussels the women hung around after the race muttering about a quick gun, doing what they could to keep their heads in the game...