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The ex-student suing Oklahoma University Law School for expelling him: Mr. Perry Mason….The 58-year-old man arrested for exposing himself in the front window of a business in Nashua, New Hampshire, in December: Mr. Joseph Dangle….The 25-year-old woman arrested in West Haven, Connecticut, in September for spitting on a police officer and then urinating in his patrol car: Ms. Lonna Leak….A high school track-and-field star in Staten Island, New York, noted in a January issue of Sports Illustrated: Mr. I-Perfection Harris.
In January, Quebec’s health insurance board approved about $3,000 (U.S.) for a 15-year-old girl’s breast implants after a psychiatrist called the surgery “necessary” for her mental health. The next week, following the predictable outcry, a board official announced that the psychiatrist’s recommendation was irrelevant because the girl suffered from “aplasia of the breast,” or a lack of mammary glands, which required surgery.
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