Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recognize them now, how can we leave Ralph Ellison, W.E.B. DuBois, Virginia Woolf, Simone De Beauvoir or Zora Neale Hurston off of our lists of contributors to Western civilization...
...dangerous. Those who kill "may feel that they are going to be united in heaven, or that the person is being taken over by devils and that they're going to save them from a worse punishment," explains Janet Warren, a professor of behavioral medicine at the University of Virginia, who worked on the Justice study...
...courts have upheld similar efforts in limited cases by Virginia and Michigan to levy sales taxes on criminal activities, Kidder said...
...juridical person -- meaning that it has legal status and can be represented by an attorney in court proceedings. But under another Louisiana law, a woman can legally abort an implanted embryo through the first trimester. In an attempt to resolve some uncertainties, an ethics committee of the Virginia-based American Association of Tissue Banks is drafting rules for the handling and disposition of frozen embryos...
...pair of male prostitutes on a midnight July 4 tour of the White House.That same weekend, Spence gave Secret Service agent Ronald deGueldre, who arranged the tour, his $8,000 Rolex; deGueldre gave Spence his $22 Casio -- all out of friendship, says deGueldre. The agent's house in Virginia was searched last week for pieces of Truman china, a set of presidential cuff links and a tiepin that disappeared mysteriously after the tour. Officials will not say if anything was found...