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...Foster said in her speech that the pro-choice movement originated in the 1970s with two men who were the founders of NARAL Pro-Choice America, not from Betty N. Friedan and Gloria N. Steinem, the founders of the National Organization for Women. She argued that Bernard Nathanson and Larry Lader convinced Friedan and Steinmen to take up their pro-choice cause. Jeremiah D. Braunlin—who recently graduated from the Harvard Extension School—said he thought that Foster’s definition of the word “feminist” was interesting...
That did not turn out to be a good idea. Says Sissel, referring to Barnad by his current name: "If you give young kids in the slums money, then they do not see it. The mother took whatever I sent to Bernard. Toys were sold. Books were sold. Cash was taken. They lived in such desperation that she did what she had to do to survive. His mother's boyfriend was burning him with cigarettes. A rat bit him in his sleep, and he became infected. Horror stories that...
Sissel then started thinking of adopting the child. "At first," she says, "I just wanted Bernard to come to L.A. for a visit. Once in L.A., he expressed a desire to stay and go to school. Keep in mind, Bernard could not read, write, count or speak English beyond basic words. I had a lot of Indian friends who got involved. I registered him in an elementary school in Santa Monica." Eventually he was given a student visa to study in the U.S. Now Bernard Chambliss Sissel, he is 30 and a married father working as a camera assistant...
...Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) with allegedly "misappropriating" at least $553 million either for personal expenses or to cover trading losses. The CFTC is the sister agency of the Securities and Exchange Commission and covers fraud in the commodities, futures and foreign-exchange markets. (See pictures of the demise of Bernard Madoff...
...have jobs, who don't have a pot to pee in." She went on: "Sir, there are tent cities. Go and look at who is standing in line to get soup. There are white collar workers in those lines now." (See pictures of the demise of Bernard Madoff...