burglary, domestic violence, trespassing, resisting arrest, and other mayhem. These days, Loser and Winner barely speak. The father who named them is no longer alive. Clearly he had the right idea-that naming is destiny-but he must have gotten the boys mixed up. Then there is the recent case of Temptress, a fifteen-year-old girl whose misdeeds landed her in Albany County Family Court in New York. The judge, W. Dennis Duggan, had long taken note of the strange names borne by some offenders. One teenage boy, Amcher, had been named for the first thing his parents saw upon reaching the hospital: the sign for Albany Medical Center Hospital Emergency Room. But Duggan considered Temptress the most outrageous name he had come across.     "I sent her out of the courtroom so I could talk to her mother about why she named her daughter Temptress," the judge later re- called. "She said she was watching The Cosby Show and liked the young actress. I told her the actresss name was actually Tempestt Bled- soe. She said she found that out later, that they had misspelled the name. I asked her if she knew what temptress meant, and she said she also found that out at some later point. Her daughter was charged with ungovernable behavior, which included bringing men into the home while the mother was at work. I asked the mother if she had ever thought the daughter was living out her name. Most all of this went completely over her head." Was Temptress actually "living out her name," as Judge Duggan saw it? Or would she have wound up in trouble even if her mother had called her Chastity? * It isnt much of a stretch to assume that Temptress didnt have ideal parents. Not only was her mother willing to name her Temptress in the first place, but she wasnt smart enough to know what that word even meant. Nor is it so surprising, on some level, that a boy named