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...wealthy Philippine sugar-plantation owner, his father Modesto, born in the Philippines, was a U.S. Navy veteran who later became a stockbroker. The youngest of four children, Cunanan grew up in middle-class Rancho Bernardo, Calif., a San Diego suburb. At the elite Bishop's School in La Jolla, he was popular and a little outrageous. Openly gay as a teenager, he once showed up at a school function in a red patent-leather jumpsuit that he said was a gift from his much older date...
Epps, an assistant professor of law at the University of Oregon Law School, says that he feels that Ma, whose grandfather was the last Episcopal bishop of Beijing, has a personal history which is more important than any political movements during his College years...
...Parkes by demanding that the already relatively frugal $56 million budget be cut an additional $20 million. "I saw The English Patient," he said. "I know we can do this for less." Spielberg enjoys talking about his work. "I'm deciding whether to use my castle or my second bishop," he says as he prepares a shot. "How am I being threatened here? How can I advance? Directing is about seeing 20 moves ahead while you're working on the next five." He'll do all the work himself, if the person assigned to the job can't hack...
...must be fairly familiar with the plot, which revolves around Jean Valjean (Gregory Calvin Stone), convict number 24601 in 19th-century France. After serving 19 years in jail for stealing bread for his starving family, he cannot find work, friends, or a place to sleep, until a kindly bishop (Michael Marra) takes him in, and publicly forgives him when Valjean steals his silver. Valjean is so moved that he decides to change his life around. Eight years later he is mayor and the owner of a factory, where a girl named Fantine (Lisa Capps) is thrown out because its discovered...
Thomas Doran, who served on the Rota until he was made Bishop of Rockford, Ill., understands both sides. American Catholics live "with a divorce mentality," he says, and are bound to be affected by it. But they are also subject to Catholic canon law, which has always strictly carried out Jesus's teaching against divorce. Doran and his colleagues are in the middle. They would like to stem the annulment tide. "But the trouble," he sighs, "is that saying no is never an easy thing...