Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sanctioned violence involving women and girls, including genital mutilation, forced prostitution and ritual starvation, all of which are practiced by countries that receive huge amounts of aid. At the same time, we must begin to take gender violence seriously right here at home. It is ironic that the Bobbitt saga -- which involved the amputation of one man's penis -- resulted in massive media publicity, while every year millions of little girls suffer genital mutilation in silence...
...Tonya Harding saga finally reached an end, of a sort: in an Oregon courtroom, Harding pleaded guilty to conspiring to hinder the prosecution of the assault on Nancy Kerrigan. Harding, who denies any role in the attack itself, was sentenced to three years' probation and a $100,000 fine. As part of the plea, she will also have to resign from the U.S. Figure Skating Association, ending her amateur career...
Experts are now scrambling to decide how this discovery changes the already complicated saga of humanity's origins. The longer scientists study the fossil record, the more convinced they become that evolution did not make a simple transition from ape to human. There were probably many false starts and dead ends. At certain times in some parts of the world, two different hominid species may have competed for survival. And the struggle could have taken a different turn at almost any point along the way. Modern Homo sapiens was clearly not the inevitable design for an intelligent being. The species...
...Whitewater focus wasn't on Nussbaum, it turned toward the Rose Law Firm of Little Rock, where Foster, the First Lady, Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell and White House lawyer Kennedy were all once partners, known collectively as "the Famous Four." Last week the firm added to the Whitewater saga that piece of office equipment vital to any full-fledged political scandal: a shredder. The New York Times reported that a college student who works at Rose told the federal grand jury convened by Fiske that in late January he and another employee were ordered to shred...
...whether he wants to stay in this hell or leave with Melissa. It should not be a very hard decision. The screenwriter, Barry Michael Cooper, and director, Leon Ichaso, must have thought differently. What could have been a half-hour drama is drama into a two-hour, drawn-out saga of a man supposedly torn between his past and future but without the substantial continuity of plot to make it believable...