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August 5, 2001

    WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME?  A New York dermatologist who made headlines last year when he offered $200,000 to anyone who could find him a wife has met with disappointment.
    Dr. Paul Dantzig, 53, who ultimately turned to a professional matchmaking service - and paid a $50,000 fee - is still not married and is suing to get his money back.
    Janis Spindel of Serious Matchmaking Inc., counters that she fixed him up with 11 women, all of whom he rejected.
    "I can bring the horse to water, but I can't make him drink,'' she said.
    Dantzig's attorney, Daniel Steinberg, said his client is "dating someone from south of the border that he met on the Internet.''

    WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE'S NOT HERE?!   Ian Johnstone, a 27-year-old British bricklayer, took a year off to travel around Australia, but he missed his sweetie, Amy Dolby, so much that he flew home to England to propose to her.
    Alas, the girlfriend also decided, at the very same time, to fly 11,000 miles to Australia to surprise him. They were even in the same airport lounge in Singapore during their simultaneous voyages, but managed to miss each other.
    His roommate in Sydney was stunned when Amy showed up at the
apartment.

    OK, LADY, YOU CAN HOLD YOUR PEACE NOW: The minister presiding over a  wedding at the First Baptist Church in Bridgeport, Conn., asked those gathered the standard question: ``If anyone objects to this union, let him speak now or forever hold his peace.''
    Then, police said, Marie Salomon, 41, objected long and loud, screaming and yelling and refusing to stop, making it impossible for the  ceremony to continue. The police came and removed her.

    I RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE, POW! A frank and open exchange of views between public officials at the Sturgis, Ky., City Hall took an ugly turn when the the 73-year-old mayor fired the fire chief.
    Details are in dispute, but it became clear that a physical altercation resulted when both men came crashing through the plate glass window and out onto the sidewalk. Police are investigating.

    MANNA FROM HEAVEN: Two man robbed a bank in West Palm Beach, but when a hidden explosive dye-pack went off and marked the ill-gotten loot, they started throwing it in the air on a downtown street.
    The sight of thousands of dollars flying through the air caused chaos as businessmen in fancy cars stopped to chase it. One woman left her baby in a stroller on the sidewalk to join in the quest for quick cash. Police recovered about $1,000.

Mike Pingree writes another Looking Glass column in the Boston Sunday Herald. You can read it by clicking here:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists.html

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