Word: woman
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...unclear exactly what the reasoning behind their proposal is, but I do know that it is not merely procedural," the woman assaulted by Douglas wrote. "It is possible, and seems likely, that they do not consider his crime worthy of dismissal. Under consideration is not whether he raped me (the Ad Board has already ruled that he did, in fact, rape me) but only what the punishment should...
...deduction, he wrote, the decision to terminate pregnancy was not with in the legitimate sphere of governmental action, concluding, "A right of personal privacy...is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy...
...Other Sister stars Juliette Lewis as a mentally challenged 20 something woman amidst an all star cast including Diane Keaton. Tom Skerritt by the lengthy and disengaged story...
Louis, in her first performance since her drug rehabilitation, tackles the challenging role of Carla Tate, a young mentally-disabled woman returning home after coming of age in a secluded private residential school. she is escorted to her affluent family's home is San Francisco by her eager and understanding father Radley Tate (Skerritt). There Carla is greeted by her two sisters Caroline and Heather, Caroline's new fiance and an overbearing mother (Keaton). Ambitious Carla Soon enrolls at Bay Tech Junior College where she meets Daniel McMare (Ribisi), another mentally challenged 20-something student. Danny, unlike Carla, attended mainstream...
...worst (which, given Malcolm's excitement and insight as a journalist, isn't very bad), the book founders on Malcolm's signature theme: the biases of the journalist as a narrator who chooses sides in the fight over which stories are true. While her last book, The Silent Woman, used the controversy over the death and estate of the suicide poet Sylvia Plath to illuminate brilliantly these questions of authority, here the justice system becomes her battleground; lawyers dispute not over matters of law but something more beautiful and strange, the power of stories to overwhelm the truth...