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Of Monks & Porn
A Benedictine monk has been caught with around 230 pornographic films in his room in a monastery in western Germany, the local Abendzeitung newspaper reported on Thursday. The discovery was made after the monk was caught trying to steal four gay pornography DVDs from a sex shop in the Bavarian city of Wuerzburg in southern Germany. After an assistant caught him stealing the films, the 49 year-old fled, throwing his loot in a rubbish bin before being caught by police. The monk lives at the 900-year-old Maria Laach Abbey in Rhineland-Palatinate.


Must Be Atleast This High
An eight-year-old boy with dreams of becoming a judge has passed a law school entrance exam, shocking Brazil's legal profession and prompting a federal investigation. The Universidade Paulista, a multi-campus private university, issued a statement acknowledging that Joao Victor Portellinha de Oliveira had passed the entrance exam and that it initially enrolled him. But he was turned away from classes when he showed up on Thursday with his father. The school said that the fifth grader has to graduate from high school before he can enter the university. The university said one of its employees erred in accepting Oliveira's enrolment and said it would return his fees to the family. "I think they should have been more considerate," the boy's mother, Maristela, told the UOL news website. "At least they should've allowed him to visit the college's facilities." The Brazilian Bar Association said the boy's achievement should be a warning about the low standards of some of the country's law schools. Education Minister Fernando Haddad...

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