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Tom Wesson, an Anglo running for constable in Dallas, lost even after trying to give himself an edge by adopting the name “Tomas Eduardo Wesson.” To comply with residency requirements, a school board candidate in Miami claimed that he lived in a 9-by-11-foot storage shed on his father’s property, but a judge dropped him from the ballot. And “psychic” Jacqueline Stallone, interviewed before election day, said her dogs had told her telepathically that Bush would win the presidency by 200 votes.
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Romanian prostitutes have been forced to expand their services, according to a June Reuters dispatch from Bucharest, by cooking and cleaning up after house calls. And an exclusive Tokyo club has gone even further: for about $1,000, a man can visit a brothel decorated as a traditional Japanese home, where a beautiful young “wife” will wait on him hand and foot, watch the TV shows he wants to watch, listen to him brag about his day, refrain from mentioning her own problems, cook him a meal, and have sex with him.
News of the Weird reported cases of severe motherhood envy–in which pregnant women were killed and their abdomens slashed open so that the fetuses could be stolen–in 1992 in Texas, 1996 in Alabama, and 1998 in Illinois. In September 2000, according to police in Ravenna, Ohio, Michelle Bica killed a pregnant woman and stole her baby but, because police suspected her, shot herself to death several days later. In all four cases, the babies survived.
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