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JAVA
[STATEWIDE Edition]
Hartford Courant - Hartford, Conn.
Author: PAT SEREMET; Wire reports included
Date: Jul 17, 2002
Start Page: D.2
Section: LIFE
Text Word Count: 1219
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Today's Birthdays: TV personality Art Linkletter is 90. Comedian Phyllis Diller is 85. The former president of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch, is 82. Comedy writer Pat McCormick is 68. Actor Donald Sutherland is 67. Actress-singer Diahann Carroll is 67. Rock singer Spencer Davis is 60. Rock musician Terry "Geezer" Butler (Black Sabbath) is 53. Actress Lucie Arnaz is 51. Actor David Hasselhoff is 50. Singer Phoebe Snow is 50. Actress Nancy Giles is 42. Singer Regina Belle is 39. Rapper Guru (Gang Starr) is 36. Contemporary Christian singer Susan Ashton is 35. R&B singer Stokley (Mint Condition) is 35. Singer JC (PM Dawn) is 31. Rapper Sole is 29.

Matching up [Alan Greenspan]'s pronouncements from Tuesday with quotations from Yoda show the Jedi master says the same stuff, only more succinctly. Plus he wields a mean light saber -- another trick Greenspan could learn.

1. THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEW BRITAIN got a surprise recently when New England Patriots safety Tebucky Jones dropped by to visit and reminisce. The kids checked out his Super Bowl ring and listened to him talk about the days he spent at the club in the '70s and '80s. "Programs like these provide a positive alternative to kids so they don't turn to drugs or other negative ways of spending time," said Jones, who was recently named special gifts chairman for the 2002 United Way Community Campaign. 2. [Arnold Schwarzenegger] 3. [Benicio Del Toro] 4. [Ashleigh Banfield] 5. YODA 6. GREENSPAN

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