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Turkey’s best-known circumcisionist, Kemal Ozkan, switched parties in last fall’s political campaign. He had been a member of the Motherland Party, which used Ozkan to attract crowds at rallies by offering voters free circumcisions for their children, but switched to the True Path Party, where he believes his skills will be better appreciated.
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In September in San Diego, Navy enlisted man Vernon Isip, 39, was charged with the felony of “dueling” following the death of a man with whom Isip was competing for a woman’s affections. Said the prosecutor, “This was what they thought was the noble, gentlemanly thing to do.” In November, a judge dismissed the charge for insufficient evidence.
According to a recent wire-service story, President Bush once received an invitation to the funeral of a man described as “hard-working” and “patriotic.” The man was not quite dead, the letter writer explained, but was hooked up to a life-support machine whose plug could be pulled at any time to accommodate the president’s busy schedule.
