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...Williams' and McLaren's headquarters last week when Schumacher's manager announced that his client may not continue in Formula One when his contract with Ferrari runs out in 2004. Until then, the racing looks as if it will stay boringly predictable. GOLF Epic Contest O thou Golfinia, Goddess of these plains, Great patroness of Goff, indulge my strains So wrote Edinburgh legal clerk Thomas Mathison in 1743 in one of the first books to describe the game that began with players hitting pebbles across sand dunes and rabbit holes in the Kingdom of Fife, Scotland, sometime during the 15th...
...magic to work, the killing had to be done just right. If the goddess were to grant Khudu Karmakar the awesome powers he expected from a virgin's death, the victim had to be willing, had to know what was happening, watch the knife, and not stop it. But even tranquilizers couldn't lull 15-year-old Manju Kumari to her fate. In his police confession, Karmakar says his wife, daughter and three accomplices had to gag Manju and pin her down on the earthen floor before the shrine. In ritual order, Karmakar wafted incense over her, tore...
...anomaly in India. Even 200 years ago, when a boy was killed every day at a Kali temple in Calcutta, blood cults were at odds with a benign Hindu spiritualism that celebrates abstinence and vegetarianism. But Kali is different. A ferocious slayer of evil in Hindu mythology, the goddess is said to have an insatiable appetite for blood. With the law on killing people more strictly enforced today, ersatz substitutes now stand in for humans when sacrifice is required. Most Kali temples have settled on large pumpkins to represent a human body; other followers slit the throats of two-meter...
Young white women in white togas are shown doing an interpretive dance at a pond; records from the event say they are nymphs representing nature and the elements. The silent film of the pageant shows a young white woman as the “Goddess of Peace” standing elevated above soldiers and rioters. Playing into the standard line of Lexington’s immense importance, the local paper wrote last week that this scene represents “the debt the world owes to Lexington for her attainment of liberty...
...words of A&M Records president Ron Fair, who has produced both Carlton and teen-pop goddess Christina Aguilera, "The same kids who two years ago were buying 'N Sync and Christina Aguilera records are responding to styles of music that are more song- and artist-driven. They're two years older, and the realism of singers singing their own songs has a lot of appeal. They haven't heard that music sung by their peers before...