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...Raphael gave up her robes and walked out of the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel, the Catholic order in Kerala, India, that had been her home for three decades. Two years later, Raphael, now 53, has come out with her memoirs, Amen: An Autobiography of a Nun, cataloging lurid details of bullying, sexual abuse and homosexuality in the oldest Catholic women's order in the idyllic coastal state in southern India. Shocking as it is, the book is only the latest in a long series of accusations and scandals afflicting the Catholic Church in the state with the largest...
...Cricket is on a roll. The economic center of the sport is now in neither Australia nor England, its birthplace, but in India, which last year hosted the first season of a loud, lurid and big-bucks league that features a short and furious version of the game. South Africa is on a roll, too, at least when it comes to sport. After the country won the Rugby World Cup in 2007, its cricketers have proved themselves world beaters. And for once, the description "rainbow nation" genuinely applies; South Africa's cricketers are white, black, mixed race and ethnically Indian...
Those with borderline disorder usually appear as criminals in the media. In the past decade, hundreds of stories in major newspapers have recounted violent crimes committed by those said to have the disorder. A typical example from last year was the lurid tale of an Ontario man labeled borderline who used a screwdriver to gouge out his wife's right eye. (She lived; he got 14 years." (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...Illinois reels from the lurid revelations about its governor, the state's politicians are scrambling to figure out what to do about Obama's replacement in the Senate. Despite all the damning charges, Blagojevich still currently has the power to appoint that person. Unless he steps down or he is impeached or convicted, the state constitution gives him, and him alone, that authority. It's possible that the Senate could refuse to seat a Blagojevich appointment, but no one wants to let it go that far. By late Tuesday, it seemed likely that the state legislature would convene a special...
...Knox, 21, her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, and Rudy Guede, from the Ivory Coast, were accused of the Nov. 2 rape and murder of Meredith Kercher. The case has generated months of lurid headlines around the world, and featured as much confusion as prurient curiosity. A Perugia judge offered the first big dose of clarity late Tuesday after all the contradicting defense alibis, allegations of police mishandling of evidence and a prosecutorial reconstruction more chilling than any tabloid account. After 12 hours of deliberation, Judge Paolo Micheli found Guede, 21, guilty of the murder and rape of Kercher, and ordered...