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...films, mostly of the low budget, independent variety, left behind a devoted husband, an infant daughter and a completed film, Waitress. It appears to be a true reflection of her spirit - eccentric, good-naturedly feminist, kind of funny and kind of sentimental. Despite its realistic setting in a small Southern town, it is much more a fable than it is a slice of authentic life...
...confronted by protests over gifts from Southern Africa, Derek Bok wrote an open letter describing and justifying Harvard’s gift policy...
...reason was the distinctive demographic pattern that began to take shape by the last quarter of the 17th century. Virginia and the other Southern states were the only large-scale slave regimes in which white settlers, committed to the creation of a new social order, remained in the majority and thus had no incentive to create alliances with free blacks or mixed populations. The second reason is offered by Yale historian Edmund Morgan in his celebrated study of Virginia: the élite, fearful of an insurrectionary union of white servants and slaves, actively promoted racism and a racially exclusive popular...
Wildfires ravage 50,000 acres in southern Georgia...
...previously had an induced abortion. Every two years, the women were asked two questions: if they had an induced abortion and if they had developed breast cancer. The 10 years’ worth of data showed no connection between the two. Leslie Bernstein, a professor at the University of Southern California, has produced nearly identical results with three studies of her own. She said that Michels’ findings are critically important, regardless of one’s personal views of abortion. “The issue is, do you promulgate bad interpretations of science and let women who have...