Among truly shattering stories Thursday is the BBC report from Delhi about a ten-year-old girl who has given birth after being raped, it is said, by her uncle. In London, a gang of six moped bandits have robbed Boodles jewellery store in Knightsbridge of valuables worth tens of thousands of pounds. From Cuba comes word that a Belleville girl, Alexandra Sagriff, 18, died from acute pulmonary edema, acute myocardial infarction and ischemic heart failure, according to the state coroner. There was no alcohol in her blood when she was found dead in her hotel room during a school trip. And it is 40 years since the death of Elvis Presley. A moment for the thousands of men named Elvis to ponder what they might otherwise have been Christened if Presley had not risen to such fame.
