NEWS LITE : JUDGE PASSES ON NUN'S PENANCE PLAN.A nun suggested unusual penance for the man who stole her car: That he watch the movie ``Dead Man Walking'' as part of his sentence. Her prayer went unanswered by a judge. Sister Frances Kirk belongs to the Sisters of St. Joseph
The Sisters of St. Joseph are a Roman Catholic order of women founded in Le Puy, France. , the same religious order as Sister Helen Prejean Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ (b. April 21, 1939, Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a Roman Catholic nun, one of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille, who has become a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty. , a character played by Susan Sarandon Susan Sarandon (born October 4, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Biography Early life Sarandon, the eldest of nine children, was born Susan Abigail Tomalin in the movie about a Death Row inmate coming to grips with his fate. Kirk wanted Willie Bob Hinton to see the movie because ``It shows the good work their parish does and how stealing a car can hurt more than the person whose car was stolen,'' Mays Landing, N.J., prosecutor Joel Mayer said. Hinton, 27, stole the nun's car from a service station parking lot in November. He was caught on Christmas Day. Superior Court Judge Robert Neustadter sentenced Hinton to three years in prison - without sending him to the movies. Elvis' home hit by burning car This time it wasn't a hunka burning love, but a chunk of burning car that made Elvis' honeymoon retreat sizzle siz·zle intr.v. siz·zled, siz·zling, siz·zles 1. To make the hissing sound characteristic of frying fat. 2. To seethe with anger or indignation. 3. . A car fire caused about $2,000 worth of damage to the five-bedroom house in Palm Springs where Presley honeymooned with his bride, Priscilla, in 1967. The engine of the caretaker's car burst into flames about 1:15 p.m. Thursday, scorching scorch v. scorched, scorch·ing, scorch·es v.tr. 1. To burn superficially so as to discolor or damage the texture of. See Synonyms at burn1. 2. wood and paint on the overhang of the house, Fire Marshal fire marshal n. 1. The head of a department or office that is charged with the prevention and investigation of fires. 2. A person in charge of firefighting personnel and equipment at an industrial plant. Noun 1. Carl Thibeault said in a news release. Made famous as Elvis' honeymoon getaway, the house attracted tour buses and was rented out for parties for years until neighbors' complaints prompted the City Council to put a stop to the fun last March. The 36-year-old house, which Elvis leased from September 1966 to September 1967, was one of three Palm Springs homes where the performer lived. It has also been featured in Architectural Digest Architectural Digest is a glossy American monthly magazine. Its principle subject is interior design, not -- as the name of the magazine might suggest -- architecture more generally. The magazine is published by Condé Nast Publications and was founded in 1920 [1]. and Look magazine. The house is owned by Tri Villa Trust of Boston. Drug buyers flee barbecue brigade John Sigmon is using some unusual tools to drive drug dealers out of his Baltimore neighborhood: a spatula spatula /spat·u·la/ (spach´u-lah) [L.] 1. a wide, flat, blunt, usually flexible instrument of little thickness, used for spreading material on a smooth surface. 2. a spatulate structure. , tongs tongs long-handled, about 3 feet, shaped like pincers with knobs on the ends of the grasping blades. Applied by standing behind the subject in a confined space and closing the jaws to grasp the animal's head just below the ears. and a grill. After dealers approached him as he parked his car several weeks ago, he held his first midnight cookout with some neighbors. An encouraging thing happened: Drug customers ran away from Baltimore's Patterson Park Patterson Park is a public park in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. The park is bordered by Baltimore Street on the north, Eastern Avenue on the south, South Patterson Park Avenue on the west, and South Linwood Avenue on the east. neighborhood. ``They went up to Potomac Street. We went, too,'' said Sigmon, president of the Baltimore-Linwood Association. ``Finally, they went and didn't come back.'' After holding two midnight cookouts on his own, Sigmon now plans to hold association barbecues at trouble spots throughout the city, beginning at midnight June 28. ``Anything that brings out neighbors in a common activity is a positive deterrent to crime,'' police Sgt. William Rowland said. At his first barbecue, Sigmon and friends sat outside with a grill, sodas and a camera without film. At the June 28 barbecue, he plans to load the camera and focus on the faces and license plates of dealers and customers. ``We want to intimidate them instead of them intimidating us,'' he said. Association member Gayle DeLoach worries about the safety of the cookout participants. ``It's a big risk,'' she said, ``but we have to take a stand.'' Officer J.P. Clements, who works in the neighborhood, said there is not much danger in holding a cookout with a large group. The dealers ``don't want to draw attention to themselves because there are a lot of witnesses,'' he said. ``They have a tendency to behave themselves.'' Hugs put prez in bad company Just what's wrong with President Clinton is outlined by essayist Philip Terzian in the latest issue of the conservative magazine the American Spectator. The problem is his hug. ``Bill Clinton loves to put his arms around people,'' writes Terzian, describing a series of ceremonial public occasions at which the president hugged an assortment of celebrants. Margaret Thatcher didn't hug, he says, and when Francois Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl wanted to express their friendship, clasping clasp·ing adj. Botany Denoting a leaf whose base partially or completely surrounds a stem. hands was enough. ``Then reckon, for an instant, where hugs are more familiar: Khrushchev and Mao, Castro and Allende, Castro and Brezhnev, Brezhnev and Chuck Connors, Erich Honecker smooching Brezhnev on the lips, Khadafy and Minister Farrakhan, Commandante Ortega and Peter, Paul and Mary The trio Peter, Paul and Mary (often PP&M) is a musical group from the United States; they were one of the most successful folk-singing groups of the 1960s. The trio comprises Peter Yarrow, Noel "Paul" Stookey and Mary Travers. . (Hit the deck if someone runs at you with her arms open, especially if she's singing ``If I Had a Hammer.'') ``This tactile urge,'' he concludes, mentioning hugs by Stalin, Hitler and Saddam Hussein, ``seems strongest in those with something to prove.'' CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1-2) Margaret Thatcher and Saddam Hussein have d ifferent hugging philosophies. |
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