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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attended. Although Evans' father embraced Samantha, who is white, as his granddaughter, he disowned Evans after she gave birth to Joshua. Last week, as Sam grieved publicly, telling reporters, "I was concerned that her rebellion would cost her life," friends of Evans' fumed that Sam was a "prejudiced pig." Meanwhile, the three suspects are being held without bail, facing charges that could draw the death penalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RIPPED FROM THE WOMB | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

GYPSIES HAVE TRADITIONALLY been the untouchables of Europe, lowest of the low. In medieval Romania, a Gypsy could be bought and sold as chattel, often for the price of a pig. In 18th century Prussia, Gypsies over 18 could be hanged without trial solely on the ground that their itinerant life-style was illegal. The Nazis targeted Gypsies for elimination as congenitally criminal, and more than 500,000 died in Hitler's death camps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: SHE WAS A GYPSY WOMAN | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

...Jesus and including such spoofs as "Everything's Coming Up Moses", was performed in the Dunster Dining Hall. The audiences and the Crimson reviewer loved it, but some people on campus were outraged. One Jesuit priest wrote a letter to the Crimson comparing Durang's work to "a pig trampling in a sanctuary...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: Durang on Life, Lore and Theater | 11/16/1995 | See Source »

While Clooney has not slugged a videorazzo--yet--he did exact unusual revenge on a cameraman who was hiding in the bushes next to his house. It seems Clooney has a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig, and it rooted out the photographer and sent him scrambling over a fence, causing him to drop his camera in flight. "He wanted to sue me," Clooney says incredulously. "But I ended up with a nice broken camera that's hanging on my mantel right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIGHTS, CAMERA, REACTION | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

...China I'd never seen before," she said, describing a hut a family shared with a pig and a peasant too poor to clothe his own children...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Journalist Couple Speak on East Asia | 9/21/1995 | See Source »

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