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Rape victim. Marauder. Murderer. Superstar! Phoolan Devi, an outcast Hindu woman, became a folk hero as head of a band of outlaws preying on India's corrupt alite. Part Joan of Arc, part Ma Barker, on Feb. 14, 1981, she staged her own St. Valentine's Day massacre, leading the slaughter of 22 villagers she suspected of aiding her enemies. Yet her surrender, in 1983, was on her own terms, to the cheers of 10,000 supporters. On her release from prison last year, three political parties asked her to run for office...
...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...