Word: girls
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...main character in the movie, Jill—played by actress Taryn Manning—suffers from cystic fibrosis, a disease that Parise became interested in while writing the screenplay. “My co-writer and I actually heard a segment…that was about a young girl who actually had cystic fibrosis but was living her life with so much enthusiasm, really living her life fully. This is something we really believe in and could hold true for everybody,” she said. Parise and co-writer Peter Stebbings used this idea as the inspiration...
...April 3, Texas authorities raided a breakaway Mormon sect's compound following allegations by a 16-year-old girl of sexual and physical abuse. More than 400 children were removed from the ranch in the state's largest-ever child-welfare operation...
LEGAL LIMBO With the girl in question yet to be identified and her alleged abuser found living in a different state, lawyers for the sect--which is led by jailed polygamist Warren Jeffs--have moved to stop the search on constitutional grounds. The children are currently in foster care...
...corner of the Quincy House Dining Hall yesterday evening, two members of the Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) Advisory Council sat conspicuously with pen in hand, elbows on table, and eyes on student plates. A girl approached them. “The garden burgers have kind of become a staple of my life,” she complained. The advisory council arrived in Cambridge yesterday afternoon to offer HUDS a third-party review of its performance, according to HUDS spokeswoman Crista Martin. This year, the council has focused on sustainability issues. The council, which annually surveys HUDS’ operations...
...Obama says. "She believed that people were all basically the same under their skin, that bigotry of any sort was wrong and that the goal was then to treat everybody as unique individuals." Ann gave her daughter, who was born in 1970, dolls of every hue: "A pretty black girl with braids, an Inuit, Sacagawea, a little Dutch boy with clogs," says Soetoro-Ng, laughing. "It was like the United Nations." (Watch a slideshow of Joe Klein's exclusive interview with Obama...