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...Horacian swipes on Catholic dogma revolve around the childhood romance of two well-intentioned social misfits. Eddie (Russ Thacker), a self-professed late bloomer, struggles to reconcile his "sinful" impulses with the rigid doctrine he confronts in school. Becky (Blackman), an overweight outcast taunted by her classmates, stumebles through her formative years asking Cod why she has been singled out. The two meet as youngsters in elementary school, and what blossoms is a classic (if admittedly mushy) romance spanning more than a decade of Catholic schooling...
...appeal to you to try to understand us," said General Jaruzelski, looking down the rows of journalists assembled in the columned hall of Warsaw's Palace of the Council of Ministers. "Poland never was, is not and never will be an outcast of the international community...
...Outcast Offspring
...does. Cathy, the only one of the four main characters who inspires not even the slightest bit of interest, turns out so typically that you can probably call it from right where you're sitting. She's a Catholic from Philadelphia, and her first serious boyfriend is a social outcast who sweeps her off her feet and then unaccountably dumps her--but then, she didn't tell her mother they were going out. She pursues a career instead of marrying a nice Catholic boy and--well, you just wouldn't believe what she and the friendly neighborhood priest wind...
People's Daily last week celebrated the 80th birthday of Deng Xiaoping, China's top leader, not with an official announcement but with one of the paper's most unusual articles in recent memory. The subject: Deng's ordeal as a political outcast during the decade of Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution. The author: "Mao Mao," the childhood nickname of one of Deng's three daughters. According to her account, three years after Deng was ousted from Deng Xiaoping Mao's inner circle in 1966 for being too critical of economic policies...