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Want more? Mike Pingree also writes a separate Looking Glass column for the Boston Herald. Past Columns (The Archives)
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March 21, 2004 A CASE OF FLAGPOLIS EXTREMIS: A 25-year-old man checked into a hospital in Villa Gonzalez, Dominican Republic, because he had an erection that lasted six days. He swears he had not taken any stimulants, and doctors say it could have been caused by a rare form of anemia. UH, SHE CAN'T COME TO THE PHONE: For nearly 20 years after his mother died, a Cambridge, Ma., man continued to cash her pension checks. The scheme started to unravel when the Teachers Pension Fund of Chicago called to question him. He said she was in a coma, and then, a short time later, he put a phony death notice in The Boston Globe. He had collected $270,000. He was arrested. NOT IN THIS SCHOOL THEY DON'T: High school students at a Sadie Hawkins dance in Bend, Ore., persisted in widespread ``dirty dancing,'' featuring intense, male-female, below-the-belt, grinding contact, after being repeatedly ordered by teachers to stop. So the event was halted. On teen was incredulous: ``There's no other way to dance besides being up against the other person,'' he said. ``It's just the way people dance these days.'' IT TAKES MONEY TO MAKE MONEY: A 73-year-old man who hit a multi-million-dollar New York lottery ten years ago decided to put his money to work to make even more. So he laundered money for drug dealers. He was sentenced to six-months house arrest. THEY WERE TEACHER-STUDENT CONFERENCES: A married Lutheran parochial school teacher in New York City was arrested for having a three-month, lesbian relationship with one of her 16-year-old students. She denies everything.
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