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...novel is a coming-of-age story about a white girl, Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning), who flees her abusive father and, in the company of her black nanny Rosaleen, finds refuge and surrogate motherhood with three Afro-angelic sisters who run a bee farm. Why did Kidd, a white woman, choose these heroines? "I grew up surrounded by black women," she told one interviewer. "I feel they are like hidden royalty dwelling among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Life of Bees: A Honey of a Film | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...that through his film, he hopes to provide the next generation with accurate information about that period in history. “The cruelties I experienced and heard remain in my memory,” Xing said in an interview through an interpreter. In one particularly graphic scene, a woman describes finding her headmaster disemboweled and beaten to death behind the schoolhouse. Later in the film, a man recounts his mother’s shooting, using his own chest to trace the path the bullet took. Merle Goldman, a professor emerita at Boston University and a research associate...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Film Revisits Chinese Revolution | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...suddenly remembered that all those bodies I maneuvered past had feet, and all the female feet wore nail polish. No woman I saw in Mumbai was so poor that there wasn’t some disintegrating color on her toes, some trace of shimmer. Personal grooming, which had always struck me as a waste of time, took on a new character. Getting your nails done wasn’t selfish, it was a kind of neighborhood beautification. I was living in a city of 40 million filthy, scuffed, aching feet, but all across Mumbai women were getting pedicures?on Malabar...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Marx and the Mani-Pedi | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...first South African white woman convicted as a traitor

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa's AIDS Truthsayer | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...Narrowly escaped an assassination attempt when her opponents mistakenly planted a bomb under a car belonging to another woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa's AIDS Truthsayer | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

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