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You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you'll get what you need. To wit: Thirty-six years ago, Carlo Little moved on like a rolling stone. And now the ex-Rolling Stones drummer will be selling hot dogs and burgers outside London's whopping Wembley Stadium while his former bandmates rock the house this weekend. The 60-year-old fellow recently told the Express newspaper that he quit because "I couldn't carry on with them as they had only a few gigs lined up and could only offer me a couple of quid for each gig." But, he says, "I have no regrets, even though I could have become a millionaire, but then I remember that I'm alive and happy." Hot dogs! Get your Zen-calm hot dogs here!

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Boys are fancy on the outside; girls are fancy on the inside, as everyone's favorite land-of-make-believe neighbor likes to say. And now, Mister Rogers has gotten just a little bit fancier. This week, he was awarded the Pennsylvania Founder's Award by the governor of the state in which his beloved show is filmed. Gov. Tom Ridge removed his suit jacket and slipped into a red cardigan before addressing the assembled throngs. "Today we honor a neighbor who has not only taught us right from wrong, but left from right," he said. Meow, meow, couldn't have happened to a nicer guy, meow.

Any of you NP readers out there have a nasty stammer you'd like to lose? Here's a tip from a British bloke: Study up on U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair's speeches. "His confident approach gave me hope," Stephen Hill told the Daily Telegraph Wednesday. "I practiced it in the mirror, imagining I was the prime minister buying a cheeseburger." Now, he says, he's cured ... but only when he talks about foreign policy.
salon.com | June 11, 1999

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