Word: rita
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...summer that for the first time would make patrons of foreign child prostitutes violators of German law, as is already the case in France and the Scandinavian countries. "Sexual abuse of children is a crime, worldwide, and will be prosecuted by criminal law," warned German Bundestag President Rita Sussmuth in an address opening a May ECPAT conference in Stuttgart...
...wrote one member of the class of 1943. This advice was followed in spades. The 1943 oral histories and questionnaires were answered by most of the class, and this mass of information was summarized by Harriet Belin, Ruth Helman, and Rita Shea. It forms a good picture of the young women who came to Cambridge to go to college 50 years...
...humiliation was particularly painful because the Aga Khan, 57, has long been regarded as a conscientious and sober-sided businessman. Unlike his playboy father, best known in the West for marrying actress Rita Hayworth, the Harvard-educated Aga Khan has kept a low-key image while raising Thoroughbred racehorses and amassing holdings that include resorts, newspapers and airlines. He spends most of his time overseeing a personal secretariat outside Paris that manages his Ismaili religious foundation and its 16,000 worldwide employees. The philanthropies fund dozens of clinics, orphanages and schools controlled by his followers in Asia, Africa...
...Rita Mae Brown stresses the fact that coming out for her, in 1961, was not that difficult. "If you're somebody who's made her career and has a lot invested in that career and social standing, it can be very hard. When you're young, you have no career, you have no social standing, Who cares...
...where does Rita Mac Brown go from here? "I just had a movie-of-the-week that was called "The Woman Who Loved Elvis.' I do lots of TV work. My cat's finished another book," (Sneaky Pie Brown writes gory mysteries such as Rest in Pieces) "and I'm doing another novel...