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...child in Shillington, a small town in southeastern Pennsylvania, he dreamed of becoming a writer, of seeing his work appear on the pages of The New Yorker. And -- presto! -- these things occurred and were then followed by unanticipated consequences: lots of money, critical recognition and fame. Worse fates have befallen people, and Updike adjusted as best he could: he cashed the checks, entertained intrusive interviewers and basked modestly in the limelight. But several years ago, his equanimity slipped when he heard that someone, somewhere, was planning to write his biography. "To take my life," he thought, "my lode...
...demanded he be tried in absentia in an Islamic country, others argued that the case had been blown out of proportion. Hassan Saab, an adviser to the Sunni Muslim Grand Mufti of Lebanon, called Rushdie "an insignificant writer who has attacked a great prophet." He asked, "What harm has befallen the Prophet?" In Egypt the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque, Sheik Gad el-Haq Ali Gad el-Haq, noted that the net effect of the furor had been to increase the book's sales and profits "by astronomical figures." It would be far better, he suggested, if Islamic scholars...
However, I did not discover this battlezone immediately. If I had, I might have been able to transfer in time to avert the tragedy that has befallen me, that keeps me up at night bathed in a schizophrenic sweat, that has released my primordial, sub-human instincts and makes each day a living nightmare. Now, it's simply too late...
...American "hero" and Crimson reporters spend their summers at investment banking firms, I realize that many people sneer at public service. However, the summer programs which PBHA members run are effective, an effectiveness proven by the value placed upon them by the communities we serve. The accidents which have befallen Keylatch and Inner City Outreach are just that, accidents; they do not invalidate the work either committee has done or continues to do. In no way do they affect the work of PBH's other committees, summer of term-time. The Crimson's reporting on the incidents has been both...
...asphyxiation and anilingus, along with even more arcane fetishes, such as collecting toenail clippings and sniffing sweat. The panel heard from a Houston police officer whose vice squad had confiscated and was storing some 27,000 "rubber goods." Many of the so- called victims described the harm that had befallen them after being lured into the world of pornography. In Miami, for example, Larry Madigan, 38, told the commission he had been "a typically normal, healthy boy," whose subsequent life of solitary masturbation, bestiality and drug addiction could all be traced to the finding of a deck of pornographic playing...