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In November Welsh entrepreneur Ben Holst formed the TitPillow Company, which sells pillows shaped like breasts, after receiving a grant of about $1,500 from the Prince’s Trust, headed by Prince Charles. In Puppetry of the Penis, which closed in January after three months at London’s 600-seat Whitehall Theatre, nude actors artistically twisted their private parts into shapes resembling, for example, the Olympic torch and a hamburger. And a November conference at Penn State University featured workshops and exhibits organized around regaining control of a word the feminist organizers regard as empowering but which is generally regarded as vulgar. The event’s name? “Cuntfest.”
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Courtroom Follies
Not Like You and Me
A 45-year-old woman who was killed as she walked onto Interstate 55 near Sherman, Illinois, in October was revealed to have been a member of a Jehovah’s Witnesses breakaway group who believe they should test their faith by standing in the middle of traffic. A few days before, she had been pulled to safety from the same highway while attempting to proselytize to drivers zooming by.
