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...with the money. The year's most profitable picture ($236 million on a $5 million budget) was My Big Fat Greek Wedding, with which Nia Vardalos proved that a woman could walk Sylvester Stallone's Rocky road: write a script, then insist that you star in it. Sweet Home Alabama ($127 million at the domestic box office) certified Reese Witherspoon's star magnetism. Sandra Bullock in Two Weeks Notice ($89 million) and Jennifer Lopez in Maid in Manhattan ($91 million) revived a staple, the Manhattan romantic comedy...
...insinuate themselves into Berkeley politics. But Berkeley's leftist reputation has proved a boon to fund-raising efforts; donors view the Patriot as a beachhead of right-wing thought at a famously liberal university. "In a way, our legacy helps us," says Patriot co-founder Barnett. "People in Alabama may not necessarily be spurred to support a conservative group at Washington State, but Berkeley? They'll send a check...
...available until August 2000, when the Florida Supreme Court threw out an obstructionist lawsuit by the National Organization of Women. Today there are 37,000 Florida “Choose Life” plates and $1,480,000 has been raised to promote adoption and other pro-birth solutions. Alabama, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma have also recently put such plates on the road as well...
...measure by measure. In the past seven years, 335 new restrictions have been put on the books around the country, according to NARAL. Most common are parent-notification laws, required waiting periods, and state-mandated lectures and literature about fetal development and alternatives to abortion such as adoption. In Alabama, women have to get sonograms before they can end their pregnancies. While a few states such as California have liberalized their laws, the trend is very much in the other direction...
Frankenberg said she has experienced the phenomenon she and her colleagues call resegregation. She attended a public high school in an Alabama school district where a desegregation court order was lifted. In her senior year, the district redrew the boundary lines that determine where students went to high school...