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A BOOZY dentist collapsed over a patient while extracting her tooth — sending her fleeing in terror. Colin McKay, 45, treated agonised Andrea Harrison despite drinking six glasses of wine during his lunch hour. He took two attempts to inject an anaesthetic into her gum, then began the extraction before the jab had time to take effect, the General Dental Council heard yesterday. He finally slumped sweating and shaking across her face and chest before she pushed him off and ran away. A second dentist at the practice in Halton, Leeds, later completed the emergency extraction. McKay, since suspended, admitted...

To the Justice Department of John Ashcroft, John McNicholl is a lifelong criminal. He also is a Catholic, and I almost never waste my time pointing this out, but in matters with John Ashcroft, I believe that his psalm-singing, right-wing, country-road religion leaves him somewhat suspicious of Catholics, if not more.

<p>MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) --Ask most schoolchildren and they will tell you that Robert E. Lee was a military genius while Ulysses S. Grant was a butcher who simply used the North's advantage in men and material to bludgeon the Confederates into submission.</p>

For reasons I truly not do understand, a number of threads I posted to tonight to got pulled from News / Activision. Now, that's okay. It isn't my board. As far as I'm concerned, J&J can run it however they want. I would, however, like to know what the rules are. It is very annoying to spend fifteen minutes writing what you think will be an accepable post, only to go back and find that the entire thread has been yanked. There was *nothing* about any of those (the threads) that I thought was least bit objectionable. They were on...

Excerpt - Life has been tough for Roger Clinton since his big brother left the White House. Bill Clinton's 45-year-old half brother, who last year pleaded guilty to reckless driving after being charged with drunken driving and disturbing the peace, and was investigated by Congress for collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars to procure presidential pardons and other favors, is now facing foreclosure on his house in Torrance, Calif. [snip]