Robbery victim: Sentences too short
The victim of a 2008 convenience store robbery is speaking out about the court system, after seeing the man who robbed her on NewsChannel 18′s Fugitive Search this week.
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Sheen ubiquity brings avalanche of punch lines
NEW YORK — Everywhere Charlie Sheen goes, punch lines follow. And right now, Sheen is everywhere.
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Ever since those bookshelves fell and crushed my stepfather, I’ve loved books.
I never liked him, not really. He was a ‘scholar’, an epicurist of literature, and always flaunted the fact that he’d read War and Peace, 5 times, once in Russian. It seemed to be his only real claim to fame but nevertheless it entranced our neighbours and they held him up as a god.
At that time, I never really liked books. I didn’t loathe them as such, more of a cruel indifference. School didn’t know what to do with me: ‘The girl doesn’t read!’. My stepfather was famous amongst the teachers; he came into parents evening all dressed up in a suit and started having conversations with my English teacher about Shakespeare and my philosophy teacher about existentialism and my geography teacher about globalisation. They made me their pet then, even though they’d previously ignored me. They still try now to eke out some hidden brilliance. Maybe one day I’ll let them find something- as it currently stands, I’ll stay quite silent, feign ignorance.
I give you now the brilliant thing that led to the destruction of my stepfather. The bookcase crushing him was really only an amusing ironic formality; it was the alcoholism that led him there.
He’d taken to accompanying his Dostoevsky with a large bottle of red wine. My mother ignored it, after all ‘wine is not an alchoholic’s alcohol’. They thought that all scholars took wine in moderation to mean guzzling bottles of red. I don’t know why he did it; I did ask him once though:
‘Sustanance- to keep me living until the pale hands of death shall grab me and drag me with her’
He meant his previous wife. Apparantly she was an alcoholic as well and he threw all her bottles out of the window and she jumped out after them. A guess, though it’s probably true.
Anyway, one day, he asks me to bring him some wine whilst he goes into our library and reads a nice bit of Dickens. I told him it was a bad idea but he insisted. Dickens was on the top shelf, after Dante and before Dostoevsky and my stepfather was relatively short. He stood on the stepladder but he was very drunk and toppled. He grabbed at the shelf but then of course it fell on top of him.
So you see, the whole thing really was a learning curve for me and everyone else. Mother and I never touched alcohol again and the teachers stopped using my stepfather as an example of academic brilliance.
And someday, I’ll be that example.
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Really want to quit my lexapro regimen after about six months, and ativan is too short of a half life to use that to ease the anxiety effects. Any advice would be great. I just know klonopin has a much longer half life which I think is best. And I’ve taken them before without becoming dependent so addiction is no issue here.
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Amy Winehouse was admitted to a hospital on Friday after collapsing while struggling with addiction on her neverending vacation in St. Lucia, her rep confirms. Sources described the ‘Rehab’ soulstress as in a “terrible state, a shaking mess” when she was taken to a facility on the Caribbean isle where she’s been staying since December. A flack noted that the singer had recently run out of medication she’d been using to battle her crack and heroin demons.
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(Feb. 14) Chris Brown’s biological father, Clinton Brown, spoke to PEOPLE yesterday about his son’s arrest. This was the first time that he had spoken to the media about the situation and wanted to let the world know that his son was full of concern. The 19-year-old singer was arrested last week before the Grammys for allegedly beating his girlfriend and fellow performer, Rihanna.
“He’s very remorseful. He’s very concerned about the situation and he wants to make sure that [Rihanna's] okay,” the corrections officer told PEOPLE during their interview. Brown had planned to attend his son’s Grammy performance but never made it to the show. “This is unfortunate, this stumble, this situation,” he continued. “Hopefully, he will get past it. We all have our shortcomings. We all trip.”
Brown has nothing but support and love for his son. He tells PEOPLE, “As a father, I couldn’t be more proud … He’s the light of my life.” But he also understands the business the Chris is in. “This music industry is very unforgiving when it comes to having indiscretions,” Brown says. “He will continue to be a good person. He loves people. And like most of us, most humans, things will occur. And hopefully a person won’t be judged simply on that alone.”
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Born October 18, 1960
Janet Cordovi is their number one fan of all time
Nicknames: Muscles from Brussels and king of the Belgians
Had troubles with cocaine during 1995, entering a month-long rehab program in 1996 but leaving it only after a week
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