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...Look, there ARE guys here!” Surprisingly, there were. The ratio of guys to girls was pretty balanced, although most girls showed up much earlier than the guys...
...been under treatment for depression. After news of the incident spread, a crowd gathered around the house and shouted slogans alleging that harassment had led Sister Josephine to kill herself. The police had to intervene, and an inquiry into the case was later ordered. Six months earlier, on Aug. 11 of last year, 23-year-old Sister Anoopa Mary had been found hanging in her room in St. Mary's Convent in Kollam, north of the capital. In what was purportedly her suicide note, she had said she could no longer withstand the senior nuns' harassment. Her father, a cook...
...January that said almost 20% of the region's nuns - the church says there are about 45,000 - feel "insecure or unaccepted" in their convents. Cases of nuns speaking up like Raphael are still rare, but there may be an avalanche building up due to the changing social scene. Earlier, girls from disadvantaged families embraced the vows, finding that life in a convent, while hard, saved them from the worst of deprivation. But once in an order, they found it difficult to complain or leave. "They simply had nowhere to go," says Pulikunnel. "If they quit the convent, they...
Indeed, the team shot 20-of-25 from the foul line on the game, showing no signs of the foul shooting trouble that plagued it in home losses to Dartmouth and Penn earlier in the year...
...instead, are looking at the Chinese economy's continued signs of weakness. Exports, a key driver of growth, continue to plummet as demand for China's toys, blue jeans and TV sets dries up in the United States. In January, exports plunged 17.5% from the same month a year earlier. Nor are the more negative convinced that the better data coming out of China are as meaningful as they appear. Take, for example, the record level of loans, which some argue won't stimulate growth as much as expected. There are signs that some borrowers, for example, are trying...