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...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...
Rechul will have a tough time getting by the second round, however. He will face Garrett Lowney, who is seeded first in the heavyweight division. Lowney is a freshman at Minnesota and won a bronze medal at the Syndey Olympics in Greco-Roman wrestling...
...patients who claim to be the notorious Lucan. But she too is in hiding from a criminal past; her real name is Beate Pappenheim, a sham Bavarian stigmatic who, using her menstrual blood to simulate Christ's wounds on the cross, once extracted a small fortune from credulous Roman Catholics before vanishing into a new identity...