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...Georgia's first colonial settlement, Savannah has always drawn Americana-loving retirees and teachers planning school trips. But a more recent wave of visitors now seeks out such outre characters as drag queen Lady Chablis, flamboyant chanteuse Emma Kelly and the voodoo priestess Minerva. TIME staff writer Ginia Bellafante says it's all part of the mania inspired by journalist John Berendt's long-running true-crime bestseller, which just passed the one-year mark on The New York Times bestseller list. The book, now being developed as a movie by Warner Brothers, chronicles a notorious 1981 Savannah murder case...
Spurr said the timing of the visit--four days after a newspaper article detailed her induction as a pagan high priestess--and comments made by the social worker show religious bias...
...house, held a fund raiser that made $100,000 -- for Feinstein. Says Klinger: "Michael fooled us once . . . He has no goal. She does, and she's about 10,000 times smarter than he is, but her goals are to promote her cult, of which she is a high priestess, and become First Lady. I'd like to see him lose by 20 points to send a signal that you can't buy a seat in our Senate...
...details of Plath's suicide have assumed totemic significance for a cult of followers who regard her as St. Sylvia, the high priestess of suffering. On Feb. 11, 1963, she put her head in a gas oven in her London apartment as her two children, for whom she had left glasses of milk and a plate of bread and butter, slept in a nearby bedroom. Plath's husband Ted Hughes, a great poet who is now England's poet laureate, had left her months earlier for another woman. Before her death, few had ever heard of the 30-year...
...particularly fascinated by on-campus issues. When discussing such matters, research isn't necessary; anecdotal evidence reigns supreme. Like the high priestess of LWFs, Anna Quindlen of the New York times, the Harvard LWF has the uncanny ability to derive whole pieces of legislation from her subjective personal experience...