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Thanks be to Heathers a film that helped make me who I am | Hanna Flint

Thirty years ago, Winona Ryders character Veronica Sawyer taught me the liberating lesson that you dont have to conform Heathers celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and is getting a rerelease to celebrate the fact. No other high school movie has affected me in quite the same way, nor offered a teenage female character

The Book of Job, part 1: Who was Job? Why does he matter? | Alexander Goldberg

My introduction to the Book of Job (Iyov in Hebrew) was not a promising one. I was in my early teens. A woman with three teenage sons, a stalwart of our community, was dying of cancer. She asked for a Rabbi to attend to her and answer one question: why is this happening to me

True-crime fanatics on the hunt: inside the world of amateur detectives

Theyve got the time, the curiosity, the resources and a thirst for true crime. Meet the amateur sleuths solving cases online It was the phone call from a police detective that told Tricia Griffith she had been right all along. In 2008, and in her late-40s, she had given up a 25-year career in

Moving testimony to the British army's loss of life in Afghanistan | Military

Wriggling into the 4.99 Primark dress, Barry Delaney never paused to consider what others might think. He and his best pal Kevin Elliott had made a pact and that was all that mattered. Three years ago, they had agreed that Delaney would wear a dress the brighter, the better if Elliott was killed

Sex parties, bloody duels and blackmail: life at court of last German emperor | Germany

Its public image was one of prudery and Prussian punctiliousness, but a historical investigation into the sexual habits of the court of the last German emperor has revealed a previously unknown predilection for swinger-style parties and late-night orgies.