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William Golding, the author of Lord of the Flies, the allegorical novel about childhood, admitted that he had once tried to rape a girl. He confessed to the incident in an unpublished memoir which he wrote for his wife in an effort to explain how his own “monstrous” character had developed. The attack is among the revelations about the Nobel prize-winning novelist in a new biography. It also turns out that when he was a school-teacher, Golding would pitch the boys in his care against each other in a real-life forerunner of his famous work. John Carey, the literary critic...

When William Golding, the author of the coming of age allegorical classic 'Lord of the Flies', died in 1993 little was known of his personal life. This has changed due to the resurfacing of an autobiography written by Golding for his wife in order to explain how his character developed. John Carey, the literary critic and an emeritus professor of English literature at Oxford has gained access to the reclusive author's previously unseen archive which includes two autobiographical works, three unpublished novels and a journal spanning twenty years. As released on the Times Online, amongst the revelations is an admittance...

From The Sunday Times August 16, 2009 Author William Golding attacked girl of 15 WILLIAM GOLDING, the author of Lord of the Flies, the allegorical novel about childhood, admitted that he had once tried to rape a girl. He confessed to the incident in an unpublished memoir which he wrote for his wife in an effort to explain how his own “monstrous” character had developed. The attack, on a 15-year-old named Dora, is among the revelations about the Nobel prize-winning novelist in a new biography. It also turns out that when he was a school-teacher, Golding would pitch the boys...

Lord Of The Flies Savages: Gang of Children Stripped, Beat And Tortured Boy, 15, Before Leaving Him For Dead In A Shallow Grave By CHRIS BROOKE 28th April 2009. Four children stripped and whipped a teenager before dumping him unconscious in a shallow grave in a scene reminiscent of the novel Lord of the Flies. The 15-year-old victim, who has a mental age of seven, was hit with planks and had lit cigarettes forced up his nose. He begged for mercy from his tormentors - a girl of 14, two boys aged 11 and another boy of 13. The girl...

How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take In a Fight? This short survey will tell you approximately how many five year old children you could fight at once. Results are based on physical prowess, training, swarm-combatting experience, and the flexibility of your moral compass. Here are the ground rules: You are in an enclosed area roughly the size of a basketball court There are no weapons or foreign objects Everyone is wearing a cup (so no kicks to the groin) The children are merciless and will show no fear If a child is knocked unconscious, he is "out." The...

Pig heads at Islamic school site Last Updated: Wednesday, 28 November 2007 Two pig heads have been stuck on metal stakes outside the site of a planned Islamic school in Australia's largest city. A passer-by reported that the heads had been placed near an Australian flag at an empty site in Camden, a suburb of Sydney. Pigs are considered unclean by Muslims and the act was described as a "display of hatred". Detective Inspector Paul Albury said police were seeking information about a person who used a citizen's band radio to claim responsibility for the pig heads. More News Bush...

NEW 'KID NATION' PROBE By Post staff writer August 28, 2007 -- ONE of the TV industry's biggest unions is launch ing its own investigation of the controversial CBS reality series "Kid Nation." The American Federation of Television & Radio Artists says it wants to find out if any of its rules were broken during the filming of the show in New Mexico. "Kid Nation" - which features 40 kids ages 8-15 who inhabit their own small town without parental supervision - has come under scrutiny recently because of allegations that some of the kids were injured during production and...

April 30, 2007 issue - The three students from Wilberforce University, near Xenia, Ohio, had a tremendous fondness for 9-millimeter pistols. They bought them as many as 25 at a time from the accommodating owner of the Hole in the Wall Gun Shop, James Dillard. As required by Ohio law, the buyers duly attested that the guns were for their personal use, which was good enough for Dillard. In fact, according to federal prosecutors, the pistols were passed to a gunrunner who resold them to street gangs. Seventy-six 9mm semiautomatics were sold to just one gang, the Double II Bloods...

What’s the difference between Cho Seung-Hui and the many hundreds if not thousands of Palestinian and Islamic terrorists worldwide? It’s a three-word answer: choice of weapon. Everything else is the same. All of them planned their mass murders meticulously by preparing carefully loaded weapons (either cars or, in Cho’s case, guns) intended to produce maximum casualties. All of them were duly deliberate, plotting their grisly massacres to result in a contagion of helplessness, fear and panic. All of them had malice aforethought, anticipating that their acts would have the widest possible ripple effect, which they did – for the victims...

Virginia Tech Tragedy is a Wake-Up Call to Parents (Ventura, CA) - Researcher and bestselling author George Barna says the current public debate about the implications of the Virginia Tech tragedy is missing the point. "The animated conversations about gun control, campus security, counseling standards, campus communications, drug abuse and mental health funding do not address the core issue raised by this event. This situation is not primarily a challenge to politicians, educators or police. It’s a dramatic wake-up call to parents." Barna indicated that he was sympathetic toward the parents of the college student who murdered 31 classmates and...

A boy of 16 was stabbed to death by a gang of teenage boys and girls for his dog, according to police. The group of attackers were dressed in school uniforms and were shouting "kill him, kill him" as they pursued him. They are said to have set two of their own dogs on the boy after he was stabbed in the heart and leg. The victim was walking his Staffordshire bull terrier when he was chased along Hammersmith Grove by the group. Some were said to be as young as 14. Residents told of their shock at the attack...

The Last Youth Standing - What the West and Islam share are elites detached from their own demographic realities Mark Steyn - November 20, 2006 I was watching Mansbridge One on One the other day. Don't ask me why. May have been an "encore presentation." Or more likely an encore presentation of an encore presentation. For a 24/7 news network, there's an eerie timelessness about CBC Newsworld: one would be only mildly surprised to switch on and find Mansbridge One on One with Lester B. Pearson or Sir Charles Tupper. Anyway, this week, the one he was on was the...

The mainstream media seemed to have settled on the sobriquet of “youths” to describe the people who are in their 13th night of burning cars, buildings, and in one instance a handicapped woman, in cities across France. Of course, it is hard to get an exact demographic profile of rioters on the run; however, reports on those who have been arrested are that only 30% are under 21. Typical of the 2,300 stories on this subject currently available on Google News, is this one from ABC International, posted in written form on the Net on 6 November, entitled “Chirac vows...

At least eight elementary school students have been killed and 45 injured in a stampede that happened on a staircase in southwestern China's Sichuan province. The accident occurred Tuesday evening in the school in Guangna township after the children had finished their evening courses, a spokesman at the Tongjiang county government, which oversees the town, told AFP. "Eight died and 45 were injured, five are in serious condition," the spokesman surnamed Xiang said. "We are sure that there were some management problems at the school, you can't let so many classes out at one time because that is when things...

Finally, some people are taking necessary action. Let the word go out - if you are threatening the authorities, innocent victims or people trying to help with evacuation and rescue efforts, this is what will happen to you. Much has already been said about the dismal response of local, state and federal authorities in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and the terrible suffering that tens of thousands of people are enduring as a result. I don't intend to add to that thread. Instead, what has struck me about this disaster is that it has demonstrated what Second Amendment defenders have...

http://www.radioreference.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20219 Hostage Situation in New Orleans -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just a heads up, armed looters have taken over one of the medical centers in New Orleans where the injured people were being sent. They are holding the entire staff of the hospital hostage and firing at the national guard. An FBI SWAT team has just been flown in (from Baton Rouge I believe) and they are just now getting situated. I'm not sure of any online scanners that are up monitoring the state trs. That is where alot of traffic is going on at. LSP Troop B is requesting immediate backup. Troopers,...

GONAIVES, Haiti (AP) -- Police reinforcements fought bloody battles with gunmen as they tried to retake Haiti's fourth-largest city from rebels who seized it two days earlier in a challenge to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. At least three police were killed Saturday, and crowds mutilated the corpses. One body was dragged through the street as a man swung at it with a machete. A woman cut off the officer's ear. Another policeman was lynched and stripped to his shorts, and residents dropped a large rock on his corpse.

COO COO CA-CHOO BISHOP ROBINSON [John Derbyshire] This is a dreadful event, a triumph for the forces of death over the forces of life. Robinson cheerfully acknowledges that he is an active homosexual. The Bible is perfectly clear that homosexual acts are sinful. Our Lord gave sinners strict and clear instructions: stop sinning, and repent your past sins. Robinson is in brazen violation of fundamental Christian doctrine. Nobody has to be a Christian; but if you are going to call yourself one, you should follow the rules. Further, Robinson abandoned two little girls in order to indulge his sexual urges....

It was said that Myer Berlow strapped clients into the chair, then David Colburn beat the stuffing out of them to make millions for AOL. A high-pitched whine emanated from the man at the microphone. Heads turned instantly. The screeching voice, like fingernails running down a chalkboard, was a rude summons back to the main event. Sooner or later, David M. Colburn, he of the slow nasal drawl, was bound to take center stage. As president of America Online Inc.'s business affairs division, Colburn commanded attention wherever he went, which was especially true at his own holiday party that December...

The video resembled a scene out of Lord of the Flies. A group of 17-year-old-girls, all in monochromatic yellow jerseys, the faces of some smeared with war paint, hurl chunks of mud, paint, and excrement at a helpless, cowering group of younger girls in the middle, smeared with a repugnantly unrecognizable cement-colored muck, and screaming for their lives. A crowd of fifty students dressed in standard suburban gear, fleeces, baseball caps, blue jeans, stand by and urge on the predators, who shift to lunging and beating, some with their bats, others with bare hands clenched into structures resembling the claws...

MILWAUKEE (AP) - The bloodshed began when a boy hit Charlie Young Jr. with an egg and he responded by punching a 14-year-old in the mouth and knocking out a tooth. But in Milwaukee's rough Midtown neighborhood, lined with rusting cars and homes with broken windows, rotting wood and peeling paint, something like that does not go unanswered. According to police, a mob of boys as young as 10 set upon Young and bludgeoned the 36-year-old man to death with broomsticks, folding chairs, a milk crate and even a stroller on a porch where he had tried to take shelter....