Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greatest aspirations as a columnist has been to bring poorly publicized but still pressing issues into the collective awareness. Often, the people hurt by a particular injustice are those most powerless to defend themselves through legislation, finance and the media. It is important to give these people a public voice, however small, that they might not otherwise have...
While the movie encourages women to defend their dignity and fight to retain a sense of self, the goal of such self-improvement is to catch a better man. Gloria eventually gains confidence and a positive self image, and Bernadine learns to believe in love, but they are taught these powerful lessons by men they barely know...
...center of what is more a soap opera than a mystery. The absurdly intricate plot has Caroline, who is up for a federal judgeship, called back to her ancestral manse in New Hampshire, a place she left in deep and unexplained bitterness when she was 22, to defend a niece who seems to have stabbed her boyfriend to death...
...relationship between those facts and those stats was all too apparent last week in Tempe, Arizona, where the Cornhuskers were preparing to defend their national title against Florida in the Jan. 2 Fiesta Bowl. Having served no jail time and only a six-game suspension after pleading no contest to the assault charges, Phillips was again playing in the national championship game as the starting back--and as a self-anointed victim. At a crowded news conference on Thursday, Phillips said, "I don't think people will ever look at me the same." And Nebraska center Aaron Graham defended...
...century after David's reign - described a victory by a neighboring King over the Israelites. Some minimalists tried to argue that the inscription might have been misread, but most experts believe Biran and Naveh got it right. The skeptics' claim that King David never existed is now hard to defend...