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Ruth Stoops (Laura Dern) has four kids she hardly ever sees and dozens of convictions for snorting paint thinner. Now she is pregnant again, and an exasperated judge has told her to get an abortion or go to jail. That's enough to make Ruth a human placard for rival zanies: a band of pro-lifers called the Baby Savers (led by Reynolds) and a cell of pro-choice lesbians (Swoosie Kurtz and Kelly Preston). You can expect the competing passions to cancel one another out. And you can count on Stoops to conquer...
...Friends remember him as conventional, ambitious and, in a time of student rebellion, deeply patriotic. At Oregon State University, he earned a degree in geography and learned how to interpret satellite reconnaissance data. At graduation, he married and went straight into the army. With his wife Laura, he resumed the life of perpetual motion he had always known, moving frequently among military bases while he served as a cryptologist and rose to the rank of captain...
...Harvard community is just as split as the community at large," says Laura S. Kang '99, education and political co-chair of the Asian American Association...
Sources also say that Laura D'Andrea Tyson, the outgoing Chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, was sought by the business school. However, it now appears that she will return to her former position at the University of California-Berkeley...
Abortion controversy? We got it: Citizen Ruth stars Laura Dern as a pro-choice icon who changes her mind. The I.R.A.? No problem: Some Mother's Son has flinty Helen Mirren playing the mother of a Belfast hunger striker. And American racism? Take your pick. Rob Reiner's Ghosts of Mississippi re-enacts the trial of Byron De La Beckwith, the murderer of Medgar Evers; John Singleton's Rosewood is about the attempt to dislodge an affluent black community...