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...year-old father, Josef, today confessed that he held his now 42-year-old daughter captive for 24 years in a concealed, windowless basement hideout, where he repeatedly had sexual intercourse with her and where she gave birth to seven of his children. The shocking case has reminded many Austrians of the fate of Natascha Kampusch, who was kidnapped at the age of 10 and kept in a narrow basement for eight years until she managed to flee in August 2006. But the senior investigator in Amstetten, Franz Polzer, said that the cruel deliberateness of Josef Fritzl's deed outstripped...
...more—jokes as these child actors are their parents, the “Stage Moms and Dads.” These scary fanatics should bear a large portion of the blame along with Burton. People like Joe Simpson, Jessica Simpson’s father, push their kids to unbearable limits for success, manipulating their children’s lives and then trying to share the spotlight.With post-childhood disasters like Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears dominating the celebrity news, it’s unlikely that the “child star phenomenon” will become a thing...
...create a deeper understanding of Djata’s world. Though not necessarily an original conceit, it is a well executed examination of one boy’s life in a repressive unnamed country. Dragomán presents the reader with a world in which Djata’s father is taken away without notice, his house is entered without a warrant, his friend breaks his ankle in order to avoid going to school, and principals threaten that any children not in their seats will “be impaled and hung in the schoolyard.” Djata...
...peasant's conical hat. A hundred years ago, the island was the quarantine station for Chinese immigrants, some detained so long they wrote poems about loneliness. No one lives on the island anymore. At night, it is a purple shadow. Sometimes I think about the young woman whose father built her this house a hundred years ago. She must have seen lanterns blaze on the island at night...
Still, every Pope has his favorite saints. Benedict's leans most of all toward St. Augustine, the fourth-century philosopher Father of the Church, whom he regularly cites in his homilies. Last year, Benedict made a pilgrimage to Pavia to pray at Augustine's relics there. And he is not excluding other sites of miracles from his future journeys. In September, Benedict is slated to visit Lourdes, the French town where millions of sick and disabled Catholics go each year to seek healing from a spring revealed by the Virgin Mary...