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Crystal finally got his hands on his brass pudding pot after he donned a plastic bra and purple hat with silver antennas...
...congressional panel's recommendation that the military suspend its controversial anthrax vaccination program will surely spell ongoing headaches for the military's top brass. After a mounting chorus of complaints from soldiers, the House Government Reform national security subcommittee on Thursday released a report urging that the inoculation of 2.4 million military personnel be halted until the procedure is further tested. Almost 400,000 troops have so far been inoculated, with at least 400 complaints of side effects, ranging from dizziness to severe thyroid problems...
...wrest control from the CDU in 1998 and end Helmut Kohl's 15-year reign as chancellor. Now Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is enjoying high approval ratings and the weakened CDU isn't even opposing the Social Democrats in two key upcoming state elections. But the Social Democrats' top brass weren't gloating Wednesday when CDU chief Wolfgang Schaeuble resigned over the campaign-funding scandal centered around Kohl. The $20 million fine levied at the CDU for the fund-raising improprieties could bankrupt the party - and that could mean unrest in the entire political system...
...brass cross is stolen from the altar of a small Episcopal church on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The theft makes the papers and gives the rector, Father Thomas Pemberton, his 15 minutes of fame. Eventually, it turns up in an odd place: the roof of the Synagogue of Evolutionary Judaism on the Upper West Side. How did it get there...
Embarrassment isn't a strong enough word for what the department's top brass is feeling. While Police Chief Bernard Parks blames an undersized internal affairs budget for the LAPD's inability to self-police, the department has spared no expense investigating Perez's leads into erroneous convictions. Investigators visited jails throughout California and as far away as South America to corroborate Perez's stories with suspects he said were wrongly convicted, and they have thus far produced 99 cases in which they're confident Rampart CRASH produced bogus convictions. L.A. County D.A. Gil Garcetti believes there could be thousands...