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...Part Joan of Arc, part Ma Barker, Phoolan Devi in the early 1980's became a folk hero as head of a band of outlaws preying on India's corrupt elite. Her movie bio, saysTIME's Richard Corliss, "has an Indian heart but a Hollywood pulse; an assaultive experience, blistering with ripe obscenities, the frontal nudity of its star and three stark scenes in which Phoolan is raped --- enough to have the film banned 10 times over in a country where a bare shoulder can send the censors frothing." "Bandit Queen" was indeed banned in India, but for what director...
...survived by his wife, Joan (Dreyfus)Wylie of Cambridge; two sons, Jonathan of Belmont,Mass., and David of Concord, Mass.; threestepchildren, James Blout of Concord, Mass., SusanB. Merry of Chicago, and William Blout ofLexington, Mass.; 14 grandchildren from thecombined families; and his brother, Francis E.Wylie of Hingham...
...looking for alternate places togive to that will directly impact undergraduatewomen," said committee organizer Joan Bolker...
Director of the Joan Shorenstein Barone Centerof Press, Politics and Public Policy Marvin Kalb,who runs courses and events at the Kennedy Schoolwhich are often attended by Nieman Fellows, alsobelieves that the fellowship will offer McCarthy avaluable opportunity...
Tepperman's troubles with Perelman started when he began skipping the morning coffee klatches in 1991, after learning that his wife of more than 30 years, Joan, was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. He claims that on some mornings, when Joan would awake confused and crying, he remained at home to bathe and dress her. That excuse cut no ice with the thrice-married Perelman. According to Tepperman's attorney, Perelman offered this advice: "Institutionalize her. And Fred," he allegedly added, "don't look so sad. The bankers will be concerned...