Word: womanizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...professor at the University of Texas in Austin, has pondered the sociobiological logic of forgiveness and concluded that at least in the realm of mating, men and women may be programmed to employ it differently. Males, he suggests, are less likely to forgive a fling because if the woman becomes pregnant, "a man doesn't want to be investing resources in other men's children." In contrast, a woman may be more forgiving of a man's one-time infidelity (assuming that he has already given her a child) but less forgiving of a long-term diversion of material...
...feel-good potential, however, forgiveness has more problematic reverberations than, say, Prozac. Can a woman's healing be helped by forgiving a physically abusive ex-husband who continues to savage her verbally among friends? What if they are still married and he is still beating her? Should the unrepentant be forgiven at all? Kittle, the Wisconsin restorative justice consultant, warns of misuse: "In religious traditions, there can be a sense of revictimization. They say to themselves, Here I am, and my child has been killed, and my pastor during my grieving period says, Jesus says you need to forgive...
...Didn't CELINE DION realize that a modern accessory like the pimp hat doesn't really work with the classic double-breasted, white-silk suit worn backward? 5 Could this pleasant-looking woman be the same FERNANDA MONTENEGRO who two days after the Academy Awards said Gwyneth Paltrow bagged her Oscar only because she is "thin, pure and virginal" and Life Is Beautiful "didn't deserve...
...leader whose every move was not dictated by public whim. This installment, in addition to offering moving reflections from still-living World War I veterans, also features an appearance by Wilson's grandson, the Rev. Francis Sayre. He talks about how his widowed grandfather fell for Edith Galt, a woman he met golfing and to whom he proposed after knowing her for just two months...
...glare of his promise in this long night of isolation, Xiu Xiu surrenders to him. And then to rougher strangers, all in the hope of getting a pass home. Without money or connections, she asks, "What's a girl to do?" The cute girl is a broken woman now, a soldier's trophy. All along, she has been coquettishly courting disaster--a prom date with death. Now that affair will be consummated...