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...binoculars. "The reality is that they were taking direct aim at people trying to cross the pass." As the mountaineers looked on, the guards allegedly shot dead one Tibetan?later identified by the Washington D.C.-based NGO International Campaign for Tibet as Kelsang Namtso, a 17-year-old Buddhist nun?while the others scattered. Shortly after, Chinese border guards marched through the base camp with about half a dozen Tibetan children they had apparently captured...
...Killers reincarnate the classic music video melodrama of boy meets, cheats on, and loses girl. This time however, grainy, sepia-toned footage tells us we’re in Mexico. The familiar saga gets a Tijuana re-telling: sweaty, mustached older greaseball takes advantage of 14-year-old future nun, sleeps with some other chick in a tube top, then somehow convinces no-longer-virginal schoolgirl to…come and work in his bar? The formerly clean-cut Killers have all donned silk bolo ties for the occasion and made admirable attempts at growing greasy mustaches and under-washed...
...Western tradition of freedom of expression should protect them all. But the reactions in the Muslim world did not end there. On Sunday night, churches in Palestine burned with Molotov bomb cocktails. The same day Benedict expressed regret for the world’s reaction to his words, a nun in Africa was shot four times in the back in an attack reportedly related to the speech. Sister Leonella Sgorbati was 65 years old, and worked at a Somali children’s hospital far away from her Italian homeland. If the reactions to the Danish cartoons are any guide...
...HABITS If you're in Alabama, don't dress up as a nun, priest or rabbi for Halloween. Impersonating "a minister of any religion" is punishable by fine or jail...
DIED. Sister Mary Luke Tobin, 98, indomitably progressive Catholic nun; in Nerinx, Ky. A former ballet teacher, she was the only American woman to participate in the Second Vatican Council. Over the years, she spoke out against the Vietnam War and nuclear stockpiling and for female ordination. She was a close friend of monk and diarist Thomas Merton...