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MONDAY, December 13, 2010

In New York, a Catholic nun at Iona College was charged with embezzling $850,000 from the school over a ten year period.  A clerk alerted authorities when she walked into Neiman-Marcus and asked if they had any designer rosary beads. 


Londoners were aghast when demonstrators threw paint and raw eggs at a vintage Rolls-Royce containing Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla.  No one could believe it.  With all the cutbacks, who can afford to waste eggs? 
  
Ann Ward has been named “America’s Next Top Model.”  She received a contract to pose for the cover of “Vogue,” a five year supply of Lancome cosmetics, and her choice from next year’s New York Jets draft picks. 

The 1891 document containing the original rules for basketball by James Naismith fetched a record-breaking $4.3 million at auction.   The buyers were the owners of the New Jersey Nets who hope to find  loopholes in the scoring process.

Wal-mart has introduced their new “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign asking customers to report anything the manager should know about -- you know, like a shoplifter, a lost child or an elderly minimum-wage greeter having a seizure.

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