Word: news
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...become a cause c?l?bre, why didn't this rate the same treatment?) Could it be because we in the the media elite were unwilling to publicize crimes committed by homosexuals because it didn't suit our agenda? The next stop in that line of reasoning was clear: That news is controlled by a bunch of gay-loving liberals only too happy to wield a double standard...
...What was that story we supposedly buried? According to news reports - and there were indeed news reports, both locally and on the national newswires - Davis Don Carpenter, 38, and Joshua Macave Brown, 22, from Benton County, Ark., participated in the rape and murder of Jesse Dirkhising, a 13-year-old from Prairie Grove. Brown strapped the boy to a mattress and stuffed underwear in his mouth, held in place with a bandanna, and repeatedly sodomized him while Carpenter watched. The boy died from asphyxiation...
...Essentially, Shepard was lynched - taken from a bar, beaten and left to die because he was the vilified "other," whom society has often cast as an acceptable target of abuse; Dirkhising was just "another" to a pair of deviants. And while child abuse is unfortunately no big news, lynching still is. Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson were not satisfying some animalistic sexual impulse, they were bullies who gratuitously killed someone out of hate for being different than they were. It wasn't about them, it was about Matthew Shepard. Because they dramatically reflected some of society's darkest influences...
American consumers are braver than they used to be about e-commerce, and yet one out of five surveyed is still uncomfortable buying on the Web. So for all the scaredy-cats out there, here's a news flash: typing your credit-card number into landsend.com is just as safe - if not safer - than reading the number to a catalog's sales rep over the phone. If you really want to go out on a limb, hand your Visa to a waiter. "Consumer fears are overblown," says David Schatsky, e-commerce analyst at Jupiter Communications. "There's not a whole...
...appointment was a step toward diversity--Hehir is the first Roman Catholic to lead the Divinity School. But out of the 14 people who have headed the Divinity School since 1819, according to the school's news office, none have been women...