Word: janet
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...play Dandridge, the first black woman nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, in an upcoming HBO film. "I understand the struggle of a black actress wanting to do so much but having so many limitations," she says. Berry won the role, coveted by such stars as Whitney Houston and Janet Jackson, by upping the stakes. "I produced it," she says. "If I'm the producer, I get the part...
...back, where they are supposed to apply the three rules they follow in their own work: Recognize the risk, analyze it, then manage it. "A lot of people don't understand the snow," says Pavillard. "It looks beautiful, but it is very insidious, and it never stops changing." Janet Kellam of the Forest Service Sun Valley Avalanche Center teaches classes in which students are given all the information they need to make a sensible decision--the right route, say--in order to avoid catastrophe. "One-half of them will choose to kill themselves," she says...
...CRIME OF SHEILA MCGOUGH by Janet Malcolm Alfred A. Knopf $22, 176pp. JARED WHITE CRIMSON STAFF WRITER...
...conviction for colluding with a con-artist client to subvert her profession and violate the law. She spent years in prison after refusing to testify against this con man and only began to speak of the gross injustice Because this peculiar, intractable lawyer is the heroine of Janet Malcolm's new journalistic essay, The Crime of Sheila McGough, the book has a fascinating mystery at its heart: the search for truth in the shadows of the legal system. Malcolm is an excellent and witty tour guide through this material, some of the densest thickets of bureaucratic confusion this side...
...incident is even more shocking in light of the statistic that 90 percent of NYPD officers never fire their guns. As Attorney General Janet Reno said at a Thursday press conference, "Firing 41 bullets at an unarmed man--there is just no excuse for that...