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Jewish World Review May 1, 2014 / 1 Iyar, 5774 The News in Zingers By Argus Hamilton
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• NBA Commissioner Adam Silver suspended for life L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling on Tuesday. He asked NBA owners to force him to sell the team. Americans agree it's a dark day indeed for the future of open and free dialogue between billionaires and their mistresses.
• The L.A. Clippers lost sponsors CarMax, Red Bull, Corona, Loan Mart and an Indian casino due to Donald Sterling's racial rant caught on tape. It's sad. In one unguarded moment, Don Sterling ruined the good name of used cars, liquid speed, beer, gambling and loan sharking.
• The NAACP withdrew the NAACP Image Award it was about to award Donald Sterling at the group's banquet next month in Beverly Hills. It's all good. They're still going to honor Donald Sterling, only they'll be giving him The Reason We Still Need the NAACP Award instead.
• Toyota announced Monday it's transferring its North American offices from Los Angeles to the Dallas suburb of Plano. The announcement was made after the fact. Toyota was going to relocate in New Mexico but the company couldn't come to a complete stop until it got to Texas.
• George Clooney is engaged to British lawyer Amal Alanmudden who's from a prominent Beirut family. She represents the Wikileaks defendant Julian Assange. Greater love hath no woman than she who could read the transcripts of George Clooney's old phone calls but doesn't.
• Donald Sterling's wife Rochelle said she owns half the Clippers and she has no intention of selling the team. That would mean player boycotts. Donald Sterling may be consigned to live out the rest of his life looking for somebody who'll sell him an all-white basketball team.
• The White House Council on Women and Girls announced Monday it will take steps to try to reduce stalking on college campuses nationwide. The definition is quite simple. Stalking is whenever two people go on a long romantic walk together and only one of you knows about it.
• The University of California at Riverside was named the top college in the country by the Obama Administration with UC San Diego second. The honor is based on two criteria. It's given to the school that's deepest in debt and has the best year-round weather for the golf team.
• Rubik's Cube manufacturers announced Tuesday that Rubik's Cube came out forty years ago Monday. They're used as a pregnancy kit in Japan. Prospective mothers insert a Rubik's Cube into the birth canal, and if they come out a minute later solved, it proves they're pregnant
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