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...from Dublin rather than Pittsburgh is like saying I’m from Boston rather than Harvard. The difference, of course, is that by saying you’re from Harvard people might resent you because they think you’re a workaholic, a social outcast or an elitist; saying you’re from America makes people think you’re fat, ignorant, rude and full of money...
...came to the priesthood because they felt called to it. "God gave me this vocation as a very little boy, before I knew I was gay," says McNichols. "It didn't seem to matter to God." But growing up gay only made him a better priest, he says. "The outcast status of gay people can provide them with a natural bent toward listening. They can be reconcilers; they can understand the sufferings of both sexes. They're natural priests." McNichols now worries that his ability to minister will be taken away. "We're all sort of like Anne Frank...
Police identified last week's killer as Robert Steinhauser, 19, who evidently had been expelled from the school in February for forging doctors' signatures on absence-excuse notes. Unlike the Columbine killers, Steinhauser was not a social outcast. "This doesn't fit into the picture I have of him," says Isabell Hartung, a former student who knew the shooter. "Everybody got on with him, and everybody liked him." Biology teacher Andreas Forster's take: "He was a very calm, reasonable...
...novel, Sazzae, Jocelyn Morin ’87 writes of Shintaro, a young buraku man turned pop star. Her focus on the untouchables of Japanese culture interestingly echoes her own position as an author—Morin’s novel is self-published, and there is no greater outcast in the literary world than the self-published writer. Certainly, it is unusual for The Crimson to review a book printed by iUniverse.com, which sends to press virtually any manuscript for a tiny fee. Without a doubt, the only reason it is here is because the author is a graduate...
...just as her memo, released anew and in full by congressional investigators, covered front pages across the country. Her lawyer says there were no retaliations by those colleagues still around these days; a source close to her, though, told the LA Times that Watkins was made to feel "an outcast." Her husband called her a "team player" and said he was proud...