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To: gamesmistress who wrote (15788)	11/10/2003 11:11:36 AM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793707

Darwin award honorable mention?: Wednesday November 5, 04:44 PM Dog shoots man PARIS (Reuters) - A French hunter was shot by his dog after he left a loaded shotgun in the boot of his car with two dogs and one of the animals accidentally stepped on the trigger, police say. The man, from the village of Espelette in the Basque region, was admitted to hospital in the nearby town of Bayonne on Monday with leadshot injuries to the hip. "As he was driving along, one of his dogs accidentally set off the gun," a police official said on Wednesday.

To: gamesmistress who wrote (15788)	11/10/2003 11:12:36 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793707

You can't be all bad if the Teacher's Unions dislike you. Hi, GV, been a while! ____________________________________ Vermont teachers' grudge haunts Dean by David R. Guarino Boston Globe Monday, November 10, 2003 Presidential hopeful Howard Dean backed a school-funding scheme when he was governor of Vermont that turned teachers there against him and is now being used to try to sway powerful teachers unions in key primary states. Dean, who trumpets his liberal credentials on the campaign trail, was endorsed more times as governor by the National Rifle Association than by the Vermont affiliate of the National Education Association - which failed to endorse Dean in three consecutive elections, records show. The reason, Vermont teachers told the Herald, was Dean's support for a plan that would have seized control of teacher salaries, ending local collective bargaining in a gambit to cut property taxes. ``Our worst fears are confirmed,'' Vermont NEA President Marlene Burke said when Dean backed the 1993 bill, which died in legislative committee a year later. Now, Bay State teachers backing U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry are trying to make sure the decade-old issue haunts Dean's White House run. The current Massachusetts Teachers Association president and five of her predecessors recently fired off letters to teacher pals in New Hampshire and Iowa, hoping to hurt the front-runner's momentum in the first primaries. REST AT bostonherald.com