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...woman named Vianne Rocher (Binoche) and her daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol) arrive in the staid if picturesque French village of Lansquenet. Their intent is to open a chocolate shop, the sensual products of which are bound to remind the locals that life has more to offer than churchgoing and spousal abuse. Their goodies place them in conflict with the rectitudinous mayor (Alfred Molina) but warm the chilled souls of various inhabitants (Judi Dench, Lena Olin, John Wood). Vianne eventually makes common romantic cause with a riverboat wanderer (Depp) who also scandalizes the town with his unsettled and unsettling ways...
EXTENDED COVERAGE "OUT OF BOUNDS" The game itself is only a small part of The Game. If there's spousal abuse (surely a favorite avocation of today's professional athlete), let's see it! That's what the innovative kitchen-counter cam is there for. And replay those 911 calls from wives and girlfriends over the stadium's loudspeakers during huddles...
These days the former Playmate wears ruby-red lipstick and four-inch heels to court, where two dozen attorneys scuttle and scat over the spoils. Although Smith's name wasn't in the old man's will, the California judge said she was entitled to spousal benefits anyway, and accused one brother of tampering with the will to keep the whole hill of beans for himself. A finding in her favor in Texas probate court, where she is arguing that the old man promised her half of everything in return for marrying him, could bolster her claim...
...they can't report anything that reflects badly on minorities. So on our sports pages we're regularly reading about athletes who commit violence against women, but the stories don't mention that over 8,000 such acts occur across the country each day. Or that the rate of spousal abuse among professional athletes is actually lower than it is for society at large...
Eight years after its last major ruling on abortion, the Supreme Court stands posed to write a new chapter in the history of reproductive law. Most of the abortion-related decisions since Roe v. Wade have been concerned with the process surrounding abortions--state rules requiring parental consent, spousal notice, waiting periods, information, record keeping--and not the abortion procedures themselves. However, Stenberg v. Carhart, argued last Tuesday before the court, gives the justices an opportunity to clarify the constitutionality of bans on certain abortion procedures, specifically so-called "partial-birth abortions." In the past five years, 30 states have...