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Besides, the portion was too small

Pizza Hut customer Joseph Schrage sued the pizza chain in Edwardsville, Ill., for the mental anguish When connected with a physical injury, includes both the resultant mental sensation of pain and also the accompanying feelings of distress, fright, and anxiety. As an element of damages implies a relatively high degree of mental pain and distress; it is more than mere disappointment,  he felt after he received a pizza that he says made him sick one night in 1997.

But they didn't use a cigar

Four students at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg were arrested for holding an exotic dancer against her will during an Act Like Bill Clinton dance.

Anything to avoid the word intern intern /in·tern/ (in´tern) a medical graduate serving in a hospital preparatory to being licensed to practice medicine.

in·tern or in·terne
n.
 

Some new job-titles added during the Clinton Administration's "Reinventing Government" Initiative: the deputy associate deputy secretary, the associate deputy assistant secretary and the assistant deputy assistant secretary.

AI Gore has already asked him for donations

The most recent celebrity to join the ranks of Hollywood's elite by cementing his hand prints at Mann's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  was the 25-year-old Nestle Quik Bunny.

But can you take it PASS/FAIL?

Plymouth University in England recently announced that it would offer an academically rigorous bachelor's degree in surfing this fall.

But he did manage to delete the rape and murder charges

A new police dispatcher Software that determines what pending tasks should be done next and assigns the available resources to accomplish it. It may execute other programs or generate a list for human operators to follow. See scheduler.  was shown how to use the computer system that held records of outstanding arrest warrants. He promptly typed in his own name and the system showed him his own arrest warrant for writing bad checks.

It's her party and she'll cry if she wants to

Lucia Kaiser filed a $30 million lawsuit in February against the Ohm restaurant in New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
 because her 400-guest birthday party (including guests Harry Belafonte Harold George Belafonte, Jr. (born March 1, 1927) is an American musician, actor and social activist. One of the most successful Jamaican musicians in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso" for popularizing the Caribbean musical style in the 1950s.  and Quincy Jones) did not meet her expectations.
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