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Dates: during 1990-1999
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David's family begins to implode. His son, Amnon, falls in love with and then rapes his half-sister Tamar. Disgusted with Tamar, Amnon sends her away from his tent. Tamar's protective brother Absalom then seeks vengeance by murdering Amnon. David's legacy suffers. He loses the opportunity to build the Temple, a privilege he had long coveted...

Author: By Melissa ROSE Langsam, | Title: Clinton's Biblical Precedent | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...people were still hospitalized last night after, prosecutors said, an East Cambridge man brutally murdered his estranged half-sister and wounded two other family members on Friday...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: One Dead, Two Hurt In Local Shooting | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...Fifth St., officers found Mary Hinds Pelo, the suspect's sister, in their mother's home. Pelo, police said, had also been shot. Police scrambled to search for the suspect. "It was very chaotic," Pasquarello said...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: One Dead, Two Hurt In Local Shooting | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

Nominally a cobbler's apprentice, his master is in jail so often that Pin never works. His older sister is a prostitute whose most frequent customer is a German soldier. This makes her an unpopular figure in certain quarters of Italy during World War II. Pin sleeps in the same room that his sister conducts her business in, and so is precociously knowledgeable about sex. He unhesitatingly shares this with peers, who are fascinated, but find him too different to befriend. Shunned, Pin hangs around a bar and tries to entertain the adults with bawdy songs and neighborhood gossip, rewarded...

Author: By Benjamin L. Mckean, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: It's a 'Spider' Boy's Life | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

...Aaron James McKinney, 22, are to be charged with Shepard's murder. The attack has focused the anger of local gay rights activists against the state's legislature for rejecting hate-crimes legislation. House Speaker Newt Gingrich received a personal plea on the issue Tuesday -- from his sister Candace, national spokesperson for the Campaign for Human Rights, who told CNN she believes her brother would agree on the need for strong action against such violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hate Crimes Challenge to GOP | 10/13/1998 | See Source »

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