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...modern pop culture is that everyone's famous and nobody's shocked. And when fans search the past, they look to venerate artists who were once pariahs. The movies of Bettie Page, the actress-model who died Thursday, Dec. 11, at 85 in Los Angeles after a heart attack, couldn't be more infra dig: they were sold under the counter, mailed in plain brown wrappers. Yet decades later she was elevated to the status of pulp goddess. The beatification process began in 1980, when artist Dave Stevens created a Bettie character in his graphic novel The Rocketeer. Jennifer Connelly...
...June 12, 1982: At four that morning, while a boarder in the Santa Monica home of Leonie Haddad, she entered the bedroom of her sleeping landlady, straddled her and shook her awake, brandishing a foot-long serrated bread knife and whispering, "God has inspired me to kill you!" She attacked Haddad, Foster writes, "slicing her from the corner of her mouth to her ear ... Bettie stabbed Haddad four times in the chest, narrowly missing her heart... stabbed the hand eight times, severing the top of Haddad's third finger." When brought to court, "Bettie pleaded not guilty but changed...
After years of relative invisibility, the dispute has returned to the world's agenda. U.S. and Indian officials believe that Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant group formed in Muzaffarabad, planned the Nov. 26 terrorist strike on Mumbai. The attack left 171 people dead and many Indians baying for revenge against the terrorists and their patrons; New Delhi says Pakistan actively supports and encourages groups like Lashkar. Although technically banned in Pakistan, Lashkar is thought to be working under the aegis of its charitable wing and is at least tolerated by Islamabad...
...That’s the game difference right there,” Rollins said. Harvard, meanwhile, shot a respectable 41 percent from the floor for the game, but dismal marks from long range (4-for-15) and the charity stripe (3-for-13) spelled disaster. Markley led a Crimson attack that found life after the break, shooting 48.7 percent from the field after mustering just a 34 percent clip in the first half. With 12 points and eight boards, Markley notched her eighth straight game scoring in double figures. Freshman point guard Brogan Berry had an efficient night, turning...
...Hasaan is specifically targeting the gp63 protein in visceral leishmaniasis, an infection in which a parasite lives inside cells of the human immune system. The protein helps protect the parasite from immune attack and is expressed on the surface of the cells...