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The eastern Ugandan man has 12 wives, 102 children and 578 grandchildren.
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“At first it was a joke,” he said, “but now this has its problems. ... Two of my wives left because I could not afford the basics like food, education, clothing.”
of the incident, the team’s remaining games were can- celed.
“A62niUmncaoluspalere not food!”books In a Russian court, she was fined 20,000 rubles ($285) and sentenced to 13 days of “administrative arrest.” Day is in Russia on a tourist visa, she explained in court that she had a driver bring the calf to Red Square so she could “show it a beautiful place in
sticks, theTAVssociated Press reported.
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Most of the family live in a house with a rusting cor- rugated iron roof on a mere 2 acres of land.
“Coaches always preach to kids about integrity ... so I was just shocked,” said the father of the absent player.
our beautiful country.”
“I can only remember the name of my first and the last born, but some of the children, I can’t recall their names,” Kasera lamented.
A ‘Wheel’ Fine Mess, Dad
ILLUSTRATION BY MARK GALACGAC
was charged with DUI and leaving the scene of an ac- cident and was released on a $4,000 bond.
Jean Merritt of Philadel- phia has a special knack for spreading goodwill. She writes letters.
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He said his daughter will not attend Churchland next year.
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an Atlanta pie shop?
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line
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71 Big sandwich
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73 Cars named for 106
language
“Fat Is a Feminist Issue” writer Orbach Sotomayor
who said,
“You cannot value dreams according to the odds of their
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a girl, 13, who was unavail-
through Red Square, shouting and some gnawed-on carrot
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Churchland investigated and held meetings with play- ers and parents.
She was hoping for a conclusive match for Santa Claus, but alas, the depart- ment said it was unable to “definitively confirm or re- fute the presence of Santa” in her home.
FEBRUARY 22, 2023 HAWAI‘I ISLAND MIDWEEK 11
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of brain freeze
10 Exchanges 42 Fragrant
Henry Ford’s
barbershop
18 Poetic salutes 116 Garb 11 Reflexive compounds 74 “Neon” fish 20 Pain 117 App buyer pronoun 43 Small detail? 75 “Cool!”
21 Stuck out one’s 118 Fishy scoopful 12 Onetime Volvo 45 “Makes sense 76 Pottery ovens
Prolific Pappy Of 102 Kids Ready To Call It Quits
The Rhode Island Depart-
son
Musa Hasahya Ka- sera, 68, has a problem, but he admits it stems from his own irresponsibility, Yahoo! News reported.
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requested 119 Large-horned 13 Inhabitant 46 Muppet with a 78 Mid-range voice 107 “Unless there
22 Coffee shop loyalty card
mammals 14 “It’s __!”
puppy named 81 Fertile soil are none”
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Boykins came off the bench
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reward 12
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25 Japanese fish
preparation 12 26 Noisy outbursts
that are greatly 12
appreciated? 12
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driver’s license 30 Brown quickly
32 Lemon scraping
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soccer league 39 Loot
41 Strikes (out) 44 Bird voted
“Most Likely to
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50 Fix, as a pet
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54 Fabrication
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west of Santa
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American animal rights with the Cumberland, Rhode
as a sub in a Jan. 21 girls’ JV
obstacle direction 112 Número de 51 God, in Hebrew 90 Activity at leches en
the old school? approach, and 3 “Yesterday” and a hint to the
activist Alicia Day, 34, was Island, police department af-
game, The Washington Post “Tomorrow” circled letters
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on Feb. 1, according to Reu- a little girl for DNA testing
Now his wives are using contraception.
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66 Atop, poetically 67 Court divider
her house when she died in
clearance, and I can’t resist
“I have learned from my irresponsible act of produc- ing so many children that I can’t look after,” he said.
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In other Weird happen- ings:
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Bad Dad
83 Not online, C o a c h e s oTnol i ns es e d
WSMV-TV reported that a car that crashed into a mailbox in Nashville, Ten- nessee, on Jan. 14 was driv- en by an underage motorist — really underage, as in 5 years old.
Varsity basketball coach
The Letter Writer
Sadly, she said most peo-
According to Philadel- phia magazine, Merritt solicits mailing addresses and then responds with a handwritten (“in meticulous cursive”) letter on captivat- ing stationery. Her missive to reporter Victor Fiorillo mentioned that she has an overabundance of writing papers and postcards.
82 When the dinner bell rings
69 Wallach of “The
70 Tot’s perch on a
bike
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But, she noted, “Doing this
is also just really good for
my brain.”
phone
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88 Actor Chaney
coach Arlisha Boykins were
89 Halloween rental fee?
fired from their positions at
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ANSWER TO TODAY’S PUZZLE
Churchland High School in Portsmouth, Virginia, after
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The child’s father, John Edwin Harris, 53, was seen by a witness grabbing the kid and running from the scene, police said. Officers found multiple open bottles of alcohol inside and ran the tags; when they arrived at Harris’ home, he was driv- ing away in his wife’s car.
“I’ve been writing let- ters since I was a little girl, and never stopped,” Merritt said.
He failed a field sobriety test, could barely stand up and smelled of alcohol. He
Along with requested let- ters, she writes to people in nursing homes through Let- ters Against Isolation and to people in prisons.
“My mother collected stationery, and I’m still us-
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