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Phoolan Devi's life, as dramatized in the movie "The Bandit Queen," was an extraordinarily violent Indian Cinderella story. But when the laws of probability finally caught up with Devi outside her New Delhi home on Tuesday, its fairytale ending was rewritten. The film helped propel the brutalized teenager-turned-brutal avenger into parliament as a champion of India's marginalized "untouchable" caste. But the real life "Bandit Queen" died Tuesday in a hail of bullets fired by unknown assassins...
According to Dean of Summer School Students Christopher S. Queen, “most of the courses offered in the summer are equivalent to courses offered during the year...
...Queen, who is officially in charge of registering complaints, says that summer school students are generally pleased with what they...
...It’s hard to let go of that safe little cab of my truck where I’m queen of the world,” she says. “But my life is moving forward in a different direction. This [program in Oxford] is the bridge...
...whose tales of the eccentric, hippo-like creatures spawned comic strips, cartoon series and even theme parks. She is also celebrated for her illustrations in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and in an edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. DIED. JOAN SIMS, 71, the British queen of the double entendre; in London. Best remembered for the bawdy, farcical Carry On series of comedy films, she also had a successful stage and TV career. DIED. YVONNE DIONNE, 67, one of Canada's famous captive quintuplets, "the Dionne Quints"; in Montreal. Until the age of nine, the "quints...