Word: womanize
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...Though he avoided calling out the White House as spineless for suggesting compromise, he joked that some “spinal transplants” that he had performed on Democrats in Congress were “rejected.” During the question-and-answer session, a middle-aged woman pressed Dean on what “rank-and-file” people should do if Obama backs away from the public option. Dean blamed Obama’s advisers for convincing the president that any health care bill that’s passed would be a victory...
...encountered, like the Khmer women who urinate standing up ("and that is really funny"); the ceremonial, contracted deflowering of young girls by priests, which Zhou details in one of his longest passages; the stealing of human gall bladders; and the nine-headed serpent spirit that turns into a woman and with which the King must couple each night in a chamber at the top of the Phimeanakas (which is still standing). "If for a single night he stays away," Zhou tells us, "he is bound to suffer disaster...
...neither high maintenance nor superficial: I'm a black woman. My focus on hair feels like a birthright. It is my membership in an exclusive, historical club, with privileges, responsibilities, infighting and bylaws that are rewritten every decade...
...This makes us a laughingstock.' ASHLI CHIN, a resident of Kuala Lumpur, on a Malaysian court's decision to cane a Muslim woman, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno (right), for drinking beer; the outcry over the verdict spurred the government to indefinitely postpone the punishment...
...took just under two minutes for Caster Semenya to win gold in the women's 800-m race at the World Athletics Championship on Aug. 19, but it will be weeks before gender tests show whether the 18-year-old South African is in fact a woman. Preliminary results of the tests--ordered after her masculine physique and dramatically improved performances prompted complaints from other runners--showed Semenya had three times the level of testosterone of a typical woman. The sport's authorities are trying to determine whether she has a genetic condition that blurs her gender and gives...