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What gall! A hacker has evaded the Vatican's electronic defenses and impiously placed a message in the Pope's personal computer. The interloper begs the Holy Father to help save Seville's 17th century church of Our Lady of the Tears, threatened by the wrecker's ball. Who is this modem-armed intruder? And why should the Pontiff intervene to preserve a crumbling edifice with a handful of worshippers...
That evening the White House got another assist, from a former stage-production teacher at Lewinsky's Beverly Hills high school named Andrew Bleiler, who revealed his affair with Lewinsky and cast her as a manipulative, star-struck home wrecker. A college schoolmate described her to a Swedish newspaper as a "notorious liar" and "a cheater." Penthouse, meanwhile, was offering Lewinsky $2 million to pose and tell her story; it all played nicely to what has been described as the "nuts and sluts" defense that would carefully paint Lewinsky as a less than reliable witness...
...Preserve Home Ownership began mailing flyers to every homeowner who voted in the last New Hampshire primary. The mailing does not mention Forbes by name, but it does declare that any attempt to eliminate the mortgage-interest deduction would be, like a tornado or termites, a "famous American home wrecker...
...after all, it was a last chance to play on the ice of the Boston Garden, a building soon to be turned into a heap of rubble by a wrecker's ball...
...fantasies, for example, run to materialistic visions of brides wielding vacuum cleaners. $ Symbols of heavy industry like cranes, tractors and forklifts move props (such as Katerina's marital bed) on and off stage, and Katerina's feckless husband is buried in the trunk of a car crushed by a wrecker's ball...