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...most vicious play of the game came after the final buzzer, when a UMD goon almost took the head off freshman Stuart Swenson (a St. Cloud, Minn. native) with a brutal slash. Swenson had finished a hard check before the final buzzer, but was luckily able to escape without an injury...
Such antics are also a reminder that Americans and Canadians are separated by more than a 5,527-mile border. The sniping is aimed at Canada's attempts to halt local dissemination of U.S. press reports about one of the most shocking sets of murders in Canadian history: the brutal torture and slaughter of two teenage girls allegedly by an attractive, seemingly perfect young couple. To ensure a fair trial for defendant Paul Teale, 29, who is also charged with 50 sexual assaults, a Canadian court has banned detailed reporting on the murder cases and on the earlier trial...
...jury in Preston, England, convicted two boys of the abduction and brutal murder near Liverpool last February of a two-year-old, James Bulger. Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, both just 10 years old at the time of the killing, were sentenced to prison for an indefinite term...
...Genet celebrated what made him an outsider. An orphan, a homosexual, a thief and a prostitute, he spent the first half of his life in and out of jail. Genet gladly embraced society's definition of his sexuality as perverse, and then perversely glorified oppressive all-male environments: prison, brutal reform schools and the SS all received romanticized treatment in such landmark novels as Our Lady of Flowers and The Thief's Journal. What Genet lacked in moral acuity he made up for in artistic originality. His novels dealt with subjects most French readers of his day found seedy...
Returning Harvard students faced airline delays and cancellations yesterday, as brutal winds and torrential rains pounded Boston and much of the Northeast...