Word: outcaste
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...This cycle boasts at least two star-making performances. The 24-year-old David Oyelowo is a magnificent Henry VI. His Queen meanwhile is the terrifying Fiona Bell, whose Margaret moves from manipulative beauty to a crazed outcast, dragging her slaughtered son's bones around in a sack. Earlier, Samuel West and particularly RSC regular David Troughton proved electric as Richard II and his nemesis Bolingbroke (later Henry IV). Desmond Barritt is a sad, lyrical Falstaff, and newcomer William Houston exciting but mannered as Henry...
...career academy located within a high school in nearby Chantilly, Va. At the Chantilly Academy, students earn coveted technical certifications in courses designed by Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Nortel. Surrounded by like-minded classmates and encouraged to pursue something he loved, Matt quickly blossomed from a bit of an outcast who couldn't get his GPA above C level to a motivated and popular A student...
...teenager growing up in Arkansas, I stored my 12-gauge shotgun under my bed. I took it out when I went with Dad to shoot clay pigeons. That wasn't back in the 1950s but rather the late '80s; even in that recent decade, I wasn't considered an outcast. Lots of kids drove to school with rifles they had forgotten to take from gun racks over the weekend. A teacher might cluck disapprovingly, but no one called a SWAT team...
...doesn't. In her mother's broken-down house in the mean streets of Umlazi township, though, Laetitia's mother hovers over her son, nursing him, protecting him, resolutely denying he has anything but TB, though his sister claims the sure symptoms of AIDS mark him. Laetitia is the outcast, first from her family, then from her society...
DeGuzman apparently idolized Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, calling the Columbine gunmen "the only thing that's real." But unlike them, DeGuzman was no outcast. "He worked so well with everybody," says his yearbook adviser Paul Ender. The weapons, friends say, are simply part of DeGuzman's fantasy. Attorney Craig T. Wormley says his client "has merely an innocent fascination with some of the items that were seized." But the charges of weapons possession and intent to injure may send him to prison for 106 years. He has pleaded not guilty...