Word: woman
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Hall's choice of Vanessa Redgrave for the central role, which requires mingling Southern U.S. and Italian accents, is unlikely but inspired. She plays a woman whose immigrant father was, unknown to her, murdered by her husband with the connivance of the town's whole power structure. The aggrieved woman dreams up a poetic revenge: to re-create within her dying husband's general store a semblance of the festive grape arbor where her family sold wine until they made the mistake of selling to blacks...
...most prominent black in the George Bush campaign was Willie Horton, the Massachusetts killer who raped a woman after he escaped from prison on a weekend furlough. The Bush camp relentlessly invoked Horton to portray Michael Dukakis as soft on crime -- but maybe also to make a not so subtle pitch to racial fears. In recent weeks, however, Bush has adroitly been mending fences. He moved quickly to meet with Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King and N.A.A.C.P. leader Benjamin Hooks. Jim Pinkerton, the director of policy development for the Bush transition team, promises, "The President-elect has a personal commitment...
...president of Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Sullivan, 55, is a friend of George and Barbara Bush's. His appointment seemed assured until he told the Sunday Atlanta Journal and Constitution that he supported a woman's right to have an abortion, though he opposed federal funding for the procedure. Right-to-life activists were outraged. In a letter to the Atlanta newspaper, Sullivan sought to clarify -- or reverse -- his statements. "I am opposed to abortion," he wrote, "except in cases of rape, incest, and where the life of the mother is threatened." Yet in a second interview Sullivan...
Even if she were not a woman, the elevation of Harris would have caused a ruckus. In fact, gender was barely mentioned during the anti-Harris campaign. For openers, she is apparently the first divorced person ever elected an Anglican bishop. In most nations, that would have prevented her from even becoming a priest. Equally remarkable, says editor H. Boone Porter of the Living Church, she lacks the "conventional qualifications" for the office. Not to say that Harris, who was the top public relations executive for Sun Oil before she decided to become a priest, lacks substantial achievements...
...have been elected bishop of the church, not a symbol or a token." Her emphasis will be on the job that she has been called to do, Harris insists, not on her precedent-shattering election. However, two years ago, Harris observed with typically caustic humor that any woman who joined the Episcopal hierarchy would need "a high tolerance for indecisiveness, an inordinate amount of patience with unimaginative leadership . . . and an appetite for ambiguity." In the coming months, such qualities will surely be tested in Harris herself, and in the fractious Anglican Communion...