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July 25, 2004

COLLEGE SURE HAS CHANGED FOR THE BETTER: A new book about college sororities tells of a tradition called "boob ranking'' in which pledges, in a race against the clock, strip off their shirts and bras and examine each other topless. They then line up in order of breast size to be inspected by their sorority sisters.
"Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities'' also says that some hold "naked parties'' in which the ladies spend the evening lounging about in the buff.

DID YOU SAY CORVETTE!? A man promised his comatose son he would buy him a Corvette if the younger man woke up. He did.

AND THE WINNER IS ...: After the throats of his five dogs were slashed, the neighbors of a distraught Florida man showed their compassion for him by mowing his lawn and bringing him dinners of pasta and sausage.
Then, the cops arrested him. His son says he probably did it to gain the sympathy of his wife who had left him.
Noting that the man had cried and collapsed in his front yard, lamenting repeatedly, "My babies, my babies, my babies,'' one neighbor said: "That guy should win the Oscar.''

SEE, I TOLD YOU! In 1982, two teenagers left their village of Kolkata, India, in search of work. When only one of them returned a few months later, a villager started a rumor that the one who came back had murdered the other man. A makeshift "court'' found the teenager guilty. He went to jail for two years and was ostracized and humiliated in his village for the next 20 years.
But then, the supposedly murdered man returned to the village. The other man wants justice.

I JUST COULDN'T KEEP IT: A thief stole more than $200,000 from an automatic teller machine in Barclays Bank in London. A week later, he returned it for some unknown reason. Bank employees found a garbage bag filled with cash when they got to work.

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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