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...undeclared national holiday, and the Aussies bet on cards, numbers, events and animals like nobody's business. They did nothing to hide their gambling habit during the Games, which was fine with me. To the great pleasure of my ink-stained-wretch brethren and the chagrin if not horror of the International Olympic Committee, the Sydney organizing committee's welcoming press party was - get this! - an afternoon at Rosehill Racecourse. "Watch, bet and enjoy Australia's favourite sporting pastime," read the invite. "A selection of Australian food and drinks will be served all afternoon." A splendid time...
...remember it being this funny" is the constant refrain at the Ziegfeld Theatre in Manhattan, where the 1965 film The Sound of Music is getting The Rocky Horror Picture Show treatment. Viewers are invited to arrive in costume, sing along with every musical number as the film plays and comment out loud about the events on screen ("I'm gay!" shout several people whenever Uncle Max announces he has a surprise for the children). Some younger kids might be frightened by the spectacle of hundreds of New Yorkers, a few in drag, belting out So Long, Farewell...
...really like the people at OCS, but it's the horror of the recruiting process that doesn't seem fun," she said. "But it seems like a necessary evil...
...abuse. For example, the highly publicized case of Dr. Robert Weirtzel, a Utah man who was convicted earlier this month for administering overdoses of morphine without familial consent which resulted in the deaths of five patients with senile dementia. But although steps need to be taken to prevent these horror stories from happening in the future, this bill would do much more harm than good...
...estate tax and marriage penalty appealed to their Congressional colleagues on emotional and moral grounds. The Senate Republican Conference led the charge, vowing to "kill the death tax" and asserting that "no taxpayer should be visited by the undertaker and the tax collector at the same time." Senators told horror stories of family farmers and asset-heavy small business owners forced to liquidate in order to pay estate tax bills...