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The cleaning worker who saved the girl's life said he received many phone calls from people who declared him a hero. A Turkish man has caught a four-year-old girl who fell from a seventh floor window in a central Anatolian city. Şükrü Deniz, a cleaning worker in the Eskişehir province, was passing by a building in the Cumhuriyet neighborhood on Nov. 28, when a pair of shoes fell on the street. "I looked up to complain about the people who throw shoes from their windows, but I saw a kid on the top floor playing on the window ledge," Deniz...

Rudy Giuliani is in. Suggested campaign slogan: "He dealt with Brooklyn. He can handle Baghdad.'' He's not a sure thing; he has enough baggage to fill the cargo hold of a cruise ship. His sundry personal-life issues bother social conservatives; the gun control stance dismays the Second Amendment wing of the party; the pro-choice opinions alarm the evangelicals. That leaves about 47 Republicans, right? After all, it's just a party of cousin-marrying yahoos who'd sooner shoot up Planned Parenthood than vote for one of those fish-on-Friday types. Right? No. Voters are more flexible and forgiving than you might expect. And...

Friday, May 24, 2002 Judge rules man insane in street sweeper theft - By Marie McCain, The Cincinnati Enquirer Damon J. Francis believed he had the power to control the weather and predict the future. He believed this, he said, because when he told people it would snow, it snowed. He told people George W. Bush would become president. He did. Mr. Francis, of North College Hill, also told people he was the Abominable Snowman and that his Cadillac was from the devil. A Hamilton County judge found the 24-year-old North College Hill man not guilty by reason of insanity...