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Lorena Bobbitt is not the first woman to have ever sliced up part of a man's genitals. According to an article in theAmerican Journal of Surgery, in Thailand in the mid 1970s at least 100 women foreshortened their philandering husbands and threw their penises out the window--a practice dubbed in local terms "feeling the ducks". But Americans need not look beyond their own continent to find other examples--in Canada two years ago a 48 year old woman who castrated her husband was also acquitted, like Lorena Bobbitt, on the grounds that she was a battered woman...
...still two hours away from Quanzhou. Once the high speed highway is built, we'll be able to make the trip in 45 minutes," Mingke explained as she downed the rest of her mineral water and threw the empty bottle out the window...
...plaintiff charges that after taking the plantiff into custody Kotowski threw Angier against the patrol car and beat him with a billy club...
...both Diller and Redstone say they have urged their respective principals in the past few weeks to back down and let the other tough guy win Paramount, plus the exciting obligation of assuming $4 billion to $8 billion in debt. But Redstone has the fever. Last Friday he threw more billions on the table and, to raise the cash, all but ceded control of his company, giving up half the seats on his board of directors to outsiders. He is plainly determined to win, even if it means losing...
...President Boris Yeltsin, who called the elections last September before crushing a hard-line revolt in a bloody showdown with the former parliament, he is reaping precisely what he sowed. Having chosen to stand above the electoral frenzy and endorse no party, Yeltsin threw his energies into only one contest -- the referendum on a new draft constitution. Yeltsin's popular clout brought in a 58% vote of support for the constitution, which grants him sweeping powers, among them the right to disband the parliament. But the legislative races failed to produce a new guard of professionals who would put constitutional...