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Donna H. Jou, a 19-year-old student at San Diego State University, left her home around 5:30 p.m. on June 23 with an unidentified man who police now think is John Steven Burgess. The man, who according to Jou’s mother was a described by Jou as a friend’s boyfriend, was wearing a white, sleeveless shirt, blue jeans and a black motorcycle helmet when he and Jou left the family’s Rancho Santa Margarita home. Burgess, who was convicted on three counts of battery in 2002 and of performing a lewd...
...suspect also goes by the assumed name Sinjin Stevens, according to a report last week in The Orange County Register. According to various police reports, Burgess contacted Donna on the Web site craigslist.org, using fake photographs to convince her to attend the Santa Monica party on June...
...winner of the Carnegie Medal, Britain’s equivalent of the Newbery Prize, was Melvin Burgess’ “Junk,” a novel about a group of heroin-addicted, anarchy-loving teenagers living on the streets. Apparently worried about seeming too bourgeois, Burgess also included a scene of forced prostitution. Keep in mind that this book is a winner of the same award as “The Borrowers.” Part of why children’s literature is so appealing is that it retains elements that adult literature has lost. In children?...
...Paul Burgess, the head of London leasing for British Land, the company behind Broadgate Tower, isn't worried. "We're coming to market at the optimum time," he says, as he prepares to sign up some of the legions of investment bankers, corporate lawyers and fund managers that make the City their home. The reason he's bullish? Demand for office space is tied to the health of London's financial-services sector and, by many measures, the City has never been fitter. The U.K. financial sector contributed 3.5% of Britain's gdp in 2005, a leap from...
...south London.) It's not because Eton lacks famous alumni. Its graduates include 19 British Prime Ministers, the founder of modern chemistry Robert Boyle, the Duke of Wellington (the one who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo), economist John Maynard Keynes, writers Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Orwell, Soviet spy Guy Burgess, actor Hugh Laurie, Princes William and Harry, the fictional James Bond, even a Roman Catholic saint - as well as generations of less illustrious worthies. The problem is that in a more meritocratic age, Eton became synonymous with "English aristocrat." Its well-worn image is as a finishing school...