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...finishes what federal restrictions began long ago. In 1977, Congress passed the Hyde amendment, banning the use of federal Medicaid dollars for abortions, except in cases of rape, incest or if the mother's life is at risk. Since then, states have enjoyed a certain degree of freedom when they move to restrict state Medicare funding of abortions...
...Central St. Martin's in 1992. By then, he'd already spent seven years as an apprentice on Savile Row - and he was still only 23 years old. His first collections were designed more to attract attention than anything else. They did. With names like "The Birds" and "Highland Rape" it was hard not to. The showmanship would have fallen flat, if not for McQueen's extraordinary talent. "The collection itself had more ideas than all the other runways in London combined," said a critic after McQueen's spring 1996 show. Isabella Blow famously bought his entire first collection. McQueen...
...abandoned from the start of his life: his mother dies during childbirth and his father brands him a bastard. (The boy's first memory of his father is watching him have sex with a nanny.) At 13, he is thrown out of the family home for supposedly trying to rape his stepsister. Nonzee's movie concentrates on Jan Dara's return to the house as a young adult to exact vengeance from his father. His life is further complicated by three women: a highly Westernized stepmother who brings Malay colonial influence into the picture (she smokes and drinks coffee...
...nobody would have wagered that Pfingst would also be the first D.A. in the U.S. to launch his very own Innocence Project. Yet last June, Pfingst told his attorneys to go back over old murder and rape convictions and see if any unravel with newly developed DNA-testing tools. In other words, he wanted to revisit past victories - this time playing for the other team. "I think people misunderstand being conservative for being biased," says Pfingst. "I consider myself a pragmatic guy, and I have no interest in putting innocent people in jail...
Traumatized by his wife's rape-murder, Leonard (Guy Pearce) loses all short-term memory. Investigating her death, he takes Polaroids of everyone he meets. But his condition prevents him from constructing a coherent account of a day in his life, let alone the crime in question. The film takes this attempt to shatter narrative into little pieces about as far into incoherence as it can go; yet it is also full of odd, hypnotic menace...