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This month gave a beam of hope to those desperate for gender equality on screen. The two top films for the April 5-7 weekend were thrillers starring women: David Fincher's Panic Room, with Jodie Foster besieged by three burglars, and Carl Franklin's High Crimes, in which lawyer Ashley Judd defends her enigmatic husband in a high-stakes court-martial. This week in Murder by Numbers, Sandra Bullock plays a cop on a homicide investigation that points to two brilliant teenagers. And on Memorial Day weekend, Jennifer Lopez provides a Star Wars alternative with the spousal revenge drama...
...frustrating to read your report "Women on a Binge," about drinking by young women [SOCIETY, April 1]. An elementary definition of feminism is the striving for equality for every person, regardless of race, sexuality or gender. Feminism is not about women wanting to be men, nor is it about women trying to do the same things as men. Using feminism as an excuse for binge drinking degrades the entire notion of feminism. GINA OCCHIPINTI Santa Cruz, Calif...
CHARGED. DARRELL DAVID RICE, 34, with capital murder for the 1996 slayings of two women hikers in Shenandoah National Park; in Charlottesville, Va. Federal prosecutors invoked the 1994 bias-crimes law and plan to seek the death penalty for Rice, who they say chose his victims based on gender and sexual orientation. The case marks the first time the death penalty has been sought under...
...Brien is not shy about using her gender courting the endorsements of women’s advocacy groups; over the course of the next month she will hold a series of four “Town Meetings for Women...
...first case, White v. Crook, was a watershed civil rights victory that declared Alabama’s race and gender-based methods for picking juries unconstitutional...