Word: scouting
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...disintegrating. She had been a superteacher, hauling her own kids to her classroom after dinner so she could chat and play as she finished special projects. But after learning about her father's illness, she withdrew, declining to take on a student teacher and saying no to some Girl Scout duties...
...carefully reasoned ruling, Judge Wright didn't say Clinton was a Boy Scout. She threw out the case by arguing that even if Clinton did everything Jones accused him of doing, it still didn't amount to sexual harassment or assault under the law. There was no evidence, Wright found, that Jones had been harmed by the episode: Jones' argument that she didn't get flowers on Secretaries' Day, that her desk had been moved, that she was discouraged from going after a better state job and too emotionally distressed to function sexually wasn't convincing. Not in the light...
...Arkansas is very athletic, they have great quickness and the ability to shoot the three," Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. "I am very confident in my staff and their ability to scout, so I am confident that we will go on the floor tomorrow and know Arkansas as well as any of our other opponents...
...wonderfully biting satire of the prevailing attitude which links show business to American politics. Two weeks before he is up for re-election, the president is accused of making advances on a Girl Scout; mysterious political consultant Conrad Brean (Robert De Niro) is called to resolve the catastrophe. Everyone gets brutally skewered in this film: politicians, filmmakers, actors, reporters and the credulous masses. The load eventually proves to be too much for the film to carry, but the film has to be admired for its sheer effort. Wag the Dog remains vastly entertaining even during its most tenuous moments. --Soman...
...explain why it happened when and where it did and the effect it had on the civil rights movement. The film was briefly in theatrical release last year, and has just been nominated for an Oscar. Shifting smoothly from the most poignant details of the girls' lives--Scout badges, a first pair of grownup shoes--to the actions of historical figures like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and George Wallace, Lee succeeds in giving a subtle, intelligent and moving account of an event that starkly pitches good against evil. In his public statements the director is often strident...