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...help calm those locals who subscribe to an anyone-but-Anheuser mentality, believing it would be an insult for their illustrious brew to be owned by what they consider a pretender to the Budweiser name. "It would be a smack in the face," scoffs retired car repairman Milos Homolka, 54. "Americans would still make beer, but it will not be the good old Budvar." Not that it would really affect Homolka either way. He has already switched to pilsner...
...Toronto jury convicted Paul Bernardo, the handsome "boy next door" accused of the brutal rapes and murders of two teenage girls in Canada, of all nine counts against him in just seven hours. The trial, with its sordid videotape evidence of Bernardo and his wife Karla Homolka sexually abusing the teenagers, often transfixed Canadians with twists and turns akin to those in the O.J. Simpson case. "At the high points of the trial, such as when Bernardo testified, people were lining up at four in the morning to get one of the one hundred courtroom seats," reports TIME's Gavin...
Canada recently barred the release of any information about the murder trial of Karla Homolka, an act that resulted in the widespread censorship of newspapers and other media, and even warrantless searches of computer accounts for information that individuals could obtain about the trial from sources in the United States and elsewhere...
Then two weeks ago, the Washington Post published a detailed account of the two murders and disclosed that there had been a third victim: Homolka's sister Tammy, 14, who like the others wound up dead after Homolka and Teale reportedly drugged and sexually assaulted her. When the Buffalo News and the Detroit News and Free Press reprinted the Post story, Canadians streamed across the border to snap up thousands of copies. They took far fewer home. Canadian customs inspectors limited travelers to one copy and confiscated the rest...
Students, meanwhile, plugged into the Internet computer network, punching up alt.fan.karla homolka to get the latest. Last week officials at three large universities shut down students' access to that Internet bulletin board...