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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A construction accident at W 65 & Bway - Lincoln Center in Manhattan, an assault on a chlid at 78th Rd & 160th St in Queens, and a suspicious package at Navy & Sands St in Brooklyn.
The trial has begun for the former Chappaqua neighbor of the Clintons who is accused of killing his wife.
"Son of Sam" David Berkowitz's lawyer, Ira Jultak, "was suspended from his job as assistant state attorney in Broward County, Florida" for impersonating a sheriff's deputy..
A man who owned a Brooklyn mortgage firm managed to steal $44 million from Fannie Mae.
Beyonce may be shooting a video in Williamsburg tonight...will she be wearing her sexy cop outfit?
Queens Crap would like Amanda Burden, head of the city's planning department, to give straight answers.
A blogger who works in a casting office says that indie movie Once is. coming. to. BROADWAY!!!!
And "Typewriter Wizard" Martin K. Tytell died at age 94. The Times says his customer included "writers Dorothy Parker and Richard Condon, the newsmen David Brinkley and Harrison Salisbury, and the political opponents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai E. Stevenson."

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on September 12, 2008 6:24 PM

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Spirit of 76

Yet more ignorance on top of the Fresh Kills-sized mounds that Snoopy is infamous for. It's hard to tell from the blurry photo, but it looks like the boutonnière is not pinned to the lapel since there's no visible stem. So it's pushed through a buttonhole, which means the guy has no choice of where he wears it. It's not even unusually high. Obviously, besides not being able to get a job, Snoopy can't get a woman to walk down the aisle with him, either.

Snoopy

The two guys on the left look like rejects for the Dion and Belmonts movie tryouts. The third guy is definitely gay. Who wears a flower that high up on their lapel?