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News of the Weird: Do names portend the future? By Chuck Shepherd
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Arrested for dealing marijuana in March in Fairfax County, Va.: Kevin Lee Cokayne. [Washington Post, 3-25-2011] Arrested for DUI in April by a California Highway Patrolman ("CHiP"): Eric Estrada (not the actor). [Santa Clarita Valley Signal, 3-13-2011] Appointed as interim chief medical officer of Newhall Memorial Hospital in Santa Clarita, Calif., in March: Dr. Richard Frankenstein. [North County Times (Escondido, Calif.), 4-8-2011] Posthumously rejected as the namesake for the new government office center in Fort Wayne, Ind., in March: former Fort Wayne Mayor Harry Baals (pronounced "bales" by his descendants but always "balls" by Mr. Baals, himself). [New York Daily News-AP, 3-14-2011] Arrested in Aurora, Colo., in January and charged with stalking his wife: Joseph Moron. [KUSA-TV (Denver), 1-20-2011] Appointed to a senior executive position in January in the global communications firm Alcatel-Lucent: George Nazi. [The Register (London), 1-10-2011]
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