Word: outcaste
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...father and a mother with two small children to watch, Lily has little to do with her family short of getting into near-comical spats with her slightly younger sister. "Summer of Love" moves along as Lily navigates new friends and new feelings of love while trying not be outcast or gain a bad reputation. Though it takes place in the late 1960s, nothing much has changed about the suburban teenage life except that they apparently didn't curse as much. Kids hang out in the woods and gossip about each other. A bunch of guys have a basement band...
...their parents to AIDS is expected to approach 2 million by 2010. And a major obstacle in the fight against the disease is the stigma associated with it. The subject of AIDS is regarded by many people as taboo and sufferers, whether adults or children, are treated as social outcasts. "There are few media interventions that directly address HIV/AIDS for very young children," says Gloria Britain, Takalani Sesame's production manager. "We saw how we could help fill this void." After months of discussion, Takalani Sesame came up with Kami, a ginger-haired, golden-yellow Muppet who joins the show...
...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...