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1. CHEVY CHASE Have you heard the one about the garbage-mouthed left-wing comedian who hosted a fancy mid-December awards ceremony in Washington and managed to gross out even the Hollywood liberal socialites in the audience with a string of hysterical anti-Bush obscenities? The distinguished speaker was Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase, the distinguished venue was the toney Kennedy Center on the banks of the Potomac, and the distinguished audience consisted largely of well-dressed members and supporters of "People for the American Way" -- a grotesquely misnamed leftist advocacy group that had engaged the 61-year-old washed-up comic to host its annual fundraiser...

Three Sentenced for Golf With Prostitutes Friday November 5, 2004 5:16 PM NORCO, Calif. (AP) - Two golf course managers and a tournament organizer were sentenced to house arrest for hosting two competitions featuring prostitutes and strippers stationed along the putting greens. [snip] About 160 golfers paid $200 apiece to play, though some showed up without their clubs, officials said. Sheriff's deputies wearing camouflage raided the second tournament, detaining 90 golfers and 17 strippers and alleged prostitutes, along with golf course workers.

<p>In 1994, archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert rode around northern Turkey in a dirty white Toyota van looking for evidence of ancient civilizations around the Black Sea. Every time he and his team would ask locals for the whereabouts of centuries-old ruins, they'd get the same response. "Everyone kept pointing us to the sea," Hiebert recalled.</p>