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Nickelodeon has, in large part, fueled this trend with shows such as "Clarissa Explains It All" and "The Secret World of Alex Mack"--which will share this week's cover story with "The Mystery Files...
...Mexico's "Little Dark One," the Virgin of Guadalupe, with Mary's affinity for the humble. She can muster historical support for the Mary described by spiritual adventurer China Galland--"a protectress who doesn't allow her children to be hunted, tortured, murdered and devoured"--and neo-Jungian Clarissa Pinkola Estes' assertion that "Mary would be a teenage-girl-gang leader" today. If this seems a bit all embracing (since the hunters, torturers and murderers no doubt have their own Marys), that too is typical. Mary, Cunneen writes, transcends cultural and religious bounds and speaks to a perennial human need...
...Clarissa J. Ngo '97, Turner's suitmate since sophomore year, says her friend's celebrity status made daily life at Harvard a little more exciting--and more lonely...
...that wore black clothes and black lipstick and listened to gothic music, as if they belonged to some death cult. Their friends think this is ridiculous. "I used to have a class with one of the girls who dressed like that, and she was really nice," says ninth-grader Clarissa Muzzy. "They were just girls who liked to dress in black...
Famous around school for her mohawk that was pink one day, orange the next, and for her sense of style, Amber "is funny, easy to get along with," says Clarissa Muzzy, still speaking of her friend in the present tense. "She listens to people and speaks her mind." She shone in English class, where, not incidentally, just before her death she had taken the role of Juliet in a class reading. In a two-page autobiography she wrote just a couple of weeks before she died, she said she wanted to be a marine biologist and that the thing...