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...dead-girl motif surfaced most poetically in publishing's surprise sensation of the year, Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones. In its bravura opening, the narrator, Susie Salmon, lucidly describes her brutal rape-murder at age 14, then goes on (telling the story from heaven) to show us the slow journey of her family and friends to recover from her loss. (This is not only a 2002 phenomenon, of course. The Sixth Sense and Crossing Over with John Edward both indulged our need to believe that our lost ones are still aware and, more important, still aware of us.) Women...
...college kid who was planting mailbox bombs in order to make a happy face on the map. A happy face? What year was that kid living in? We call them emoticons now. In Britain, the worst royal scandal anyone could scare up this year was over a rape that allegedly occurred in 1989. And a gang of thugs wanted to kidnap Victoria Beckham, a.k.a. Posh Spice, now - that's like stealing someone's Enron stock. Even weirder were the public debates. Last year we were arguing about cloning and stem-cell research. This year, we pretended to argue about things...
...campaigning against the watering down of Japan's wartime atrocities in school textbooks; in Tokyo. Ienaga's crusade began in 1965 when he sued the government for rejecting his revised edition of A New History of Japan. Detailing the darker side of the country's past, including the Rape of Nanjing and experiments on POWs, the book was criticized by the Ministry of Education for being "too gloomy on the whole." The Supreme Court finally approved...
...candidates in upcoming elections in the Indian state of Gujarat face criminal charges, among them murder, rape and fraud...
...last time a student was dismissed from the College was in 1999, when the full Faculty voted dismiss D. Drew Douglas and Joshua M. Elster, Class of 2000, who were charged in separate incidents of rape...