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...postmodern spin on the traditional sword-and-sandal epic, Russell Crowe stars as Roger Clemens, a Yankee pitcher who has completely lost his mind. He now believes that he is Rogerius Clemensius, heir to the Roman throne, and has been cheated out of succession by Mets catcher Mike Piazza. Armed with nothing but a 98 m.p.h. fastball and a fragment of a broken bat, he vows to exact revenge. Both drama and hilarity ensue...
...next round, Rechul drew a very tough opponent, Minnesota freshman Garret Lowney. Lowney had won a bronze medal at the Sydney Olympics in Greco-Roman wrestling. Rechul lost that match, pinned by Lowney...
...history, in the form of prudish colonialism, religious movements and puritanical social engineers such as Mao and Pol Pot, managed to drown the roots of those liberated notions. The Asia of the second half of the 20th century was a fundamentally conservative place, albeit with variations. In the largely Roman Catholic Philippines, men frequently had more than one wife. Few places were as straight-laced as Singapore, but its drag queens thrived. You could be gay in Java - if you liked isolation. "Homosexuality is tolerated in Indonesia," says Dede Oetomo, an anthropologist at Surabaya's Airlangga University, "as long...
Elizabeth Catherine Bush was no Charles Andrew Williams. She didn't shoplift booze or boast of pulling a Columbine. Bush was a quiet eighth-grader who attended Bishop Neumann High School in Williamsport, Pa., a cozy Roman Catholic school that holds spaghetti suppers and sock hops. A stickler for safety, Bush lectured the school bus driver for speeding through railroad crossings. She tacked posters of Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King Jr. to her bedroom walls and affixed pictures of the Columbine victims to the bulletin board over her desk. Her parents say she wanted to be a human-rights...
MARCH 7, 2001 Williamsport, Pa. Elizabeth Catherine Bush, 14, was threatened and teased mercilessly at her old school in Jersey Shore and transferred last spring to Bishop Neumann, a small Roman Catholic school. There she allegedly took her father's revolver into the cafeteria and shot Kimberly Marchese in the shoulder. WARNING SIGNS Bush was reportedly still being teased and was depressed. As she fired the gun, she allegedly said, "No one thought I would go through with this." It is unclear whether she had told anyone of her intentions...