Notable Quotes
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They really said it -- notable quotes in the news:
''Voluptuous used to be good. Voluptuous women were sexy. Now they're perceived as fat ...
Breasts are obviously still a good idea.''
--Author TOM WOLFE.
''I got up on the right side of the bed and I was nice to everybody. I thought I was going to die. I
kept saying hello, have a nice day. It was a nightmare but I was awake. So I went back to bed and
slept on some bricks and I woke up feeling much better.''
--OSCAR THE GROUCH of ''Sesame Street'' fame in an interview with the New York Daily
News.
''If I were Clinton, I would have gone in front of the American people and said, 'Yes, I'm having an
affair with this woman. My wife is still behind me so it's really none of your business and if this is not
OK with you, fine, get yourself a new president.'''
--Moviemaker WOODY ALLEN on the White House sex scandal.
''I am very serious about running for president but Jane doesn't want me to do it.''
--Media mogul TED TURNER, as quoted in the New Yorker.
''Wherever Ted goes, I go.''
--His wife, JANE FONDA.
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Monday November 16 10:49 AM ET
Inept Drug Smugglers Get Long Sentences
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LONDON (Reuters) - An international drugs smuggler and two of his cohorts whose truck got stuck
in a London tunnel during a police surveillance operation were sentenced to long prison sentences
Monday.
The three were arrested by Customs and Excise officers in London's Blackwall tunnel in February
after they failed to notice their truck was too tall to make it through the passage. They were found
with 80 kilograms of heroin with a street value of six million pounds ($10.03 million).
Customs officers had been watching as the driver of a container truck met up with two men in a blue
passenger car before the vehicles drove in convoy into the tunnel. After the truck got stuck, police
sealed both ends of the tunnel and made the arrests.
The incident caused large parts of London's heavily-congested road network to grind to a halt.
Hamid Shamsollahi, an Amsterdam-based Iranian businessman, was sentenced to 18 years by
Southwark Crown Court. Turkish Cypriot Karkut Eris received 14 years and Mustafa Karinca, a
Turk, was given nine years.
''This is a major criminal organization and a significant amount of heroin,'' a Customs and Excise
spokesman said. ''By taking out that organization it means the amount of heroin that would have hit
the streets in the months to come will be significantly reduced.''
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