From: glen mccready 
  To: Dead Beef <0xdeadbeef@substance.abuse.blackdown.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 16:28:03 -0400

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 15:05:01 -0400
From: Keith Bostic <bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
To: /dev/null@python.bostic.com
Subject: Excerpted: WhiteBoard News for July 07, 1995

Forwarded-by: joeha@microsoft.com

WhiteBoard News for July 07, 1995

New York, New York:

Gender bender RuPaul bares it all in an autobiography called "Letting It
All Hang Out."

There's your basic drag-to-riches story and tidbits, like the fact that
little Ru used to saw the breasts off his Barbie dolls.

So how does a 6-foot-7 dude with freckles turn himself into a highly
coifed, blond drag queen supreme with flawless skin and killer legs?

Ru says it takes about three hours.

"First I take a hot bath.  I play music (Diana Ross, Donna Summer).  I
scrub my skin, then shave my legs (and fingers and toes).  I moisturize
my whole body before I put on my makeup -- four shades of foundation to
contour my face, three lipsticks, lots of tones of blush.  All the time
I'm thinking how gorgeous I'm gonna look."

But RuPaul had grander things in mind when he wrote his life story.  It's
"dedicated to all the little Ru-Rus in the world who have a dream and may
feel that it will never come true."

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Des Moines, Iowa:

Iowa Governor Terry Branstad called for a change in state law to avoid a
repeat of last week's state Supreme Court order that Tom and Kim Grant of
Britt must pay some legal costs of the drunken driver who killed their
12-year-old son.

The driver, Raymond Lauri, is too poor to pay the $900,000 a jury awarded
to the Grants, or the $1,850 for his state-appointed lawyer, Charles
Levad.

So the Grants must pay Levad, the high court said, despite arguments by
the Grants' lawyer, Alfred Beardmore, that such a ruling would be another
reason why "the legal profession and the courts are not in great favor
with the public."

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Fast News Forum:

A Denver, Colorado, man accused of pouring varnish on his wife during sex
instead of the honey and chocolate syrup she was expecting has pleaded
guilty to assault and disturbing the peace.

An Albany, New York, appeals court ruled that a judge was wrong to find
a witness in a murder trial in contempt for wearing a shirt that read,
"If (expletive) could fly, this place would be an airport."

Boston, Massachusetts, bus driver Nick Filandrianos, 32, earned dinner
for two and some movie passes by eating a bag of live bugs, dried grass
and leaves, and sucking water from his woolen socks.  It was part of a
WRKO-AM tribute to Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady, the pilot who was
rescued from Bosnia.