Word: glenda
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Local patrons like Glenda A. Medeiros provide insight into how the renovated Coop differs from the old bookstore...
...GLENDA JACKSON, 60; LONDON; Former actress...
Making the System Work: Urban Violence and Legal Solutions. Featured speakers include the Rev. Jesse Jackson, president and founder, National Rainbow Coalition; the Rev. Calvin Butts, pastor, Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York; and the Hon. Glenda Hatchett Johnson, chief presiding judge, Fulton County Juvenile Court, Georgia. Preregistration is required. $55 for students. Call 628-1530 or 491-4401 for more information. Through Saturday...
Several people have gone so far as to suggest imposing a waiting period for marriage licenses, modeled after gun laws. "Both kinds of licenses," explains historian Glenda Riley, author of Divorce: An American Tradition, "create a volatile situation." And just last week, a group of mostly female state lawmakers in Washington introduced a bill that would require marriage licenses to come with warnings about spousal abuse. "I would say, simply, 'Beware. Stop, look, listen and be cautious,' " said state senator Margarita Prentice, a co-sponsor of the bill, which is expected to pass the Democratic Senate but run into trouble...
...divorce. Indeed, the number of divorces began soaring in the mid-60s and has declined only slightly since peaking at a little over 1.2 million in 1981. Thus, despite sporadic cheers about falling divorce rates, couples have not gotten much better at staying together-not yet anyway. Divorce, Glenda Riley claims, reflects the true American spirit; after the country achieved independence, she says, people wrote divorce petitions that read something like: "My husband is tyrannical. If the U.S. can get rid of King George...