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Bumfketeer · **Posted:** Sat Nov 23, 2002 10:00 pm

SARATOGA SPRINGS … Jockey Filiberto Leon gave his bride-to-be an early wedding present Friday
afternoon. He won the first race at Saratoga Race Course in his only mount of the day. NORTH GREENBUSH … By being nimble and quick, MapInfo finally hopes to jump over the $41
million candlestick of annual revenues at which it has stalled the last two years. A physical disability isn't a barrier to success … though ignorance could be … according to a
man who should know: Bob Dole. If Mother Nature and Old Man Winter had a child, the brat's name would be March and it
would be sickly with symptoms like frigid temperatures, coughing snow, and shaking from a
chill wind.
LOS ANGELES … ``Men in Black II'' grabbed fis
tfuls of little green dollars at the box office as the alien-bus
ting sequel debuted with $54.1 million in its first weekend, sli
ghtly more than the original made.
It's 9:30 p.m. in Wilmette, Ill., and all is quiet save for the three idiots in the living
room terrorizing the cat, smacking golf balls at the furniture and shouting ``we want
croutons, we want croutons.''
At Saturday's funeral of former Albany Mayor Tom Whalen, one of the city's finest mounts left
a large deposit on Madison Place, yards from the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception where
the funeral cortege was to arrive.
NEW YORK (AP) … It's like deja O'vu. The Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization wanted to march up Fifth Avenue in the annual St.
Patrick Day Parade … again.

pzicari · **Posted:** Sun Nov 24, 2002 12:50 am

That Saratoga-jockey lede is a beauty. I collect, rather indiscriminately, for a Christmas newsletter I send in lieu of prattling about the family accomplishments ... Here are two samples, which only happen to be ledes, from last month:Anton Hamilton, who was convicted of aggravated murder for fatally shooting his grandfather, will get another shot at a new trial.----------Virtually every heavy band has aspirations to be as forceful and disturbing as Tool.
Many of today’s “nu metal“ bands try to incorporate Tool’s sonics into their own sound. Yet, Tool put on a performance at Gund Arena last night so forceful and so disturbing that it exposed most of its imitators as pretenders.

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