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...security means a tiny cell in Gaborone Central Prison, where the gaunt, 50-year-old blonde says she is at peace and where she awaits death by hanging for the 1996 murder of Maria "Ria" Wolmarans, one of her closest friends. In the year after the killing, Bosch married Wolmarans' widower-Marthinus, known as Tienie-with whom she had been having a passionate affair since shortly after her own husband's death in a 1995 auto accident. Barring a presidential decree of clemency, Bosch-who still maintains she is innocent-would be the first white woman to be executed...
...surrounding the killing have divided public opinion in the country and mystified local people who knew both families. The minister at the Dutch Reformed Church in Gaborone, the Rev. Arthur Cloete, still finds it hard to understand that Mariette Bosch could have coldly planned and committed the murder of Ria Wolmarans. Before the killing the two families-each with two daughters and a son-sat in the front pews of the church, Cloete said, the Boschs to the right, the Wolmaranses to the left. "They were close friends," he added. "When Tienie had to go and work up north, Mariette...
...Juliet's husband after the murder and, three months later, she ordered a wedding dress. Juliet Bosch put the pieces together and turned the gun over to police, who linked it to 9-mm cartridges found at the murder scene. Wolmarans, who was investigated as a possible accomplice in Ria's death, married Bosch in 1997 and stands by her. "We won't give up hope," he said...
Harvard does not have a professional staff that works exclusively on gay and lesbian issues, according to Ria Gautreau-Tabacco '03, a Bisexual Gay Lesbian Tansgender Student Alliance (BGLTSA) board member...
...York City's financial district, the bug hit early risers especially hard. "If I had been here a few minutes later, nothing would have happened," says Vincent Cecolini, an editor for the RIA Group, a publisher of financial books. By the time his company's computer technicians arrived, they found 2,000 corrupted messages in his Out box and spent the rest of the day wrestling with the damage. "I was terrorized," says Cecolini. "My stomach was in knots." Old Westbury, N.Y., businessman Kamal Dandona's experience was even more nightmarish. Organizer of a major Bombay film industry-awards show...