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In April a federal judge in Hartford, Connecticut, threw out the defamation lawsuit against Princeton University filed by disgruntled would-be medical student Rommel Nobay, who claimed that when Princeton bad-mouthed him for lying on his application it discouraged other schools from accepting him. Nobay admitted to fudging his class standing and SAT score, among other things; however, he had attracted more suspicion with his essays claiming that a family of lepers in Kenya had so much faith in him that they had donated “half their beggings” to help him with his education.
More Than a Best Friend
Kickboxer Parinya Kiatbusaba, 16, of Thailand, who won his 20th fight in March, has garnered a lot of press coverage because out of the ring he is a flamboyant transvestite. “It is hard to fight beautiful men,” he said. “I can easily knock them out. On the other hand, I want to hug and kiss them.”
Least Competent Criminals
In March Kelvin Floyd received a modest two-month sentence and a fine in Aiken, South Carolina, for stealing a car. Floyd had known to scratch out the car’s vehicle ID number and replace it with a substitute number–but he used his own social security number.
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