Word: susane
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Gingrich's swaggering bravado is easy to make fun of. But beneath all the quick jabs at the Clintons and the "liberal media elite" is something quite frightening. This is, after all, the man who claimed that the actions of Susan V. Smith, the young woman in South Carolina who was accused of drowning her two small children, would not have occurred under a Republican administration. This is the man who in 1984 questioned the patriotism of ten House Democrats when they wrote a letter to Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega calling for a peace settlement between warring factions. Gingrich accuses...
...looking at the trailer park ambiance of Susan Smith's life--the 1990 burgundy Mazda Protege, the $6.35-an-hour job as a secretary, the early, fractured marriage--in all of its awful banality, it becomes a little easier, if not to accept her action, but to see why she was desperately looking...
...focus on Susan Smith, the person, solely as a mother means that we invest too much in the term "mother." By delegating all or most of the responsibilities of domestic life, including child rearing, to women, we continue to perpetuate stereotypes...
Administration: Susan Lynd, Denise A. Carres, Sheila Charney, Donald N. Collins, Corliss M. Duncan, Ann V. King, Anne D. Moffett, Judith R. Stoler News Desks: Brian Doyle, Waits L. May III, Susanna Schrobsdorff, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Ann Drury Wellford, Mary Wormley...
...Susan Smith-- the South Carolina woman who faked a carjacking and then sent her sons to a watery grave in a lake -- decided at the last minute not to stay in the car as her children plunged to their deaths. Smith -- still on 24-hour suicide watch -- made the statements in her confession, released by her lawyer to CNN. "I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car, ready to go down that ramp into the water and I did go part way, but I stopped," CNN says she wrote. "I went again and I stopped...