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March 11, 2001

DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR? Capt. Christine Fiori, who teaches civil engineering at the Air Force Academy, has been accused of engaging in some unauthorized extracurricular activities with two young cadets. The charges say she dallied with one of the lads for a month in the early spring of last year, and with the other for a month in late summer. 
In her defense, she said in a statement, "... Except for what may or may not have happened with a particular cadet on 22 Aug. 2000, I deny having sexual relationships with any cadet." 

GIVE MY REGARDS TO THE LITTLE LADY, BOB: The wife of a North Port, Fla., policeman became very popular with his fellow officers, who downloaded nude pictures of her from the Internet. She said she posted the photos to surprise her hubby. 
But when his superiors saw the pix being passed around the station, they held him responsible and suspended him without pay for three days.

TO THE HIDEOUT, AND STEP ON IT! A man took a cab to a bank in Raleigh, N.C., told the driver to wait for him while he went in, and came back less than three minutes later. He didn't tell the driver that he had just robbed the place. The cabbie dropped the guy off not knowing what had happened until he was questioned by the police. 
The robber was still at large.

AT LAST, MY NAME IN LIGHTS! The good people at Kokoman Wines & Liquors in Pojoaque, N.M., found a way to put a stop to the blizzard of bad checks being  passed at the store by booze-buying deadbeats. The manager now posts the names on an outdoor marquee of those patrons who write the worthless checks. The names can be seen from the highway. 
Now, weeks go by between episodes of check bouncing.

DO THESE BELONG TO ANYBODY? Because there was no room in their Brunswick, Ga., store, Bruce and Phyllis Garrett stacked hundreds of thousands of floor tiles in the parking lot outside. Within hours, ordinary citizens from miles around descended on the place like a swarm of locusts, and stole it all. Garrett raced to the store when he heard what was going on to try and salvage what little was left, and was stunned by the brazenness of the people he encountered there. "One guy said, `The only proof I've got that it's yours is your say-so,'" he said. 
"I said, `Sir, the only thing you need to know is it's not yours.'"

Mike Pingree writes another Looking Glass column in the Boston Sunday Herald. You can read it by clicking here:
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