-- Sunday Telegraph (London), May 9
WHY ART IS ALWAYS CONSIDERED A "DIVERSION" For an exhibit at London's Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, guest performers took turns reading from Japanese conceptual artist On Kawara's 20-book series "One Million Years," a list of selected dates between 998,031 B.C. and 1,001,980 A.D. Said a gallery director, "On Kawara's work speaks simply and directly about a subject relevant to us all, the passage and marking of time."
-- Press Association (Britain), March 28
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CASE CLOSED In a Miami courtroom, while prosecutors were telling the judge that convicted defendant Raymond Jessi Snyder was a "flight risk" and should be locked up until his sentencing, Snyder slowly eased from his seat and bolted out the door (but was recaptured across the street).
-- Miami Herald, Jan. 30
SO MANY ZEROS, SO LITTLE TIME Ian Fleming, 33, was charged in New York City with attempting to deposit bogus, computer-generated checks into his account at a Commerce Bank in Forest Hills, in the amounts of, respectively, $5,000,000,000 and $6,000,000,000. The week before, police alleged, Fleming had done a trial run by successfully depositing bogus checks of $350 and $1,300, and apparently felt ready to move up.
-- New York Post, Sept. 19
DEPT. OF LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS The burglar of the Tutto Bene Cafe in Christiansted, Virgin Islands, was still in the store as employees arrived a bit earlier than usual. He took cover, squeezing underneath a large fan in the cooling unit that, unfortunately for him, is the first appliance the employees turn on every day. The man was arrested but taken first to the hospital with numerous cuts and abrasions.
-- Associated Press, May 2
HE FORGOT TO DUCK Michael Marks, 25, offering an insanity defense in Los Angeles to attempted murder, said he was crazed at the time of the crime because someone on a balcony above him had spilled PCP on his head, affecting his thinking.
-- Associated Press, Feb. 24
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