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...Modena High has a nickname. Students at neighboring schools in Orange County, Calif., call it "Homo-dena," spitting out the syllables with all the cruelty and attitude that high school rivalry can disgorge. And a battle is being joined in El Modena, a battle over the right to form a student club on campus similar to ones that have become increasingly popular and controversial nationwide...
...very physical and emotional conflict. On Wednesday Anthony Colin, 15, leader of El Modena's Gay-Straight Alliance, was hit on the head by a demonstrator who was furious because a federal judge had ruled that the group could meet on campus. The ensuing melee involved about 50 people and lasted about half an hour, halting traffic. On Friday students both for and against the group staged a walkout. Some kids complain that El Modena's reputation is suffering and that they are being bullied for coming from "the gay school"; other classmates call such fears "immature." Parents fearful that...
Maybe something was lost in the translation, but a crowd of concertgoers in Modena, Italy, heard Luciano Pavarotti say that MICHAEL JACKSON couldn't make it to the charity concert because Jackson's son "may be dying." It was shocking news, especially to the two-year-old's mother Deborah Rowe Jackson. "To hear that your child is dying and to find it on the news--and it not be true--is terrifying," she told Los Angeles' KNBC-TV before leaving to join her son and husband in New York City. She said PRINCE had a virus infection, which caused...
DIED. ALDO ROSSI, 66, sublime architect who reworked vernacular forms into designs of haunting beauty; after a car accident; in Milan, Italy. The Cemetery of San Cataldo in Modena, Italy--a colonnaded arcade of chilling austerity--is one example of the poetic use of space that won him architecture's highest honor, the Pritzker Prize...
...life, out there beyond the hype with only two little vocal cords to depend on. But the sporting life, which both men cherish, is their release. Nobody, for example, dared approach Pavarotti last week, because he was directing a horse-jumping competition in his hometown of Modena. He wasn't riding -- what horse save Bucephalus could carry him? He doesn't care: "I have always loved being around horses, and now I'm crazy about them...