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An October San Francisco Chronicle dispatch reported that the parents of Amy Biehl–the 26-year-old Fulbright scholar murdered by a mob of black South African kids in 1993–have come to grips with the tragedy to such an extent that they’ve not only started a foundation in their daughter’s name to fund community projects in Cape Town but recently hired her two principal killers to work for it.
Transsexuals in the Mainstream
Due to the recent $5.2-million settlement between the LA diocese and an alleged molestation victim, a Catholic Church official told the Los Angeles Times in August, a church under construction in Yorba Linda will have windows on the doors of its confessionals to help protect parishioners from priests. Said the official, “Building a church that creates a safe and open environment will be very important to [us].”
According to an October Canadian Press report, several tax-evasion defendants have recently resorted to using a math-based language called “In the Truth”–invented by American David Wynn Miller, who says he wanted to replace the “flawed syntax” of English–when they defend themselves in court. Stated one defendant: “With the sovereign, hyphen, authority of the Andrew, hyphen, William, colon, Sereda is for the stating of the authority of the noun.” So far most judges have responded by awarding “In the Truth” speakers a government-paid mental examination, and Canadian immigration’s response has been to ban Miller from the country.
