Word: womans
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...police report of the incident as saying that she saw "two black males with backpacks" trying to enter Gates' home. But tapes of the 911 call and the police radio transmissions released on Monday show that Whalen, who was actually calling police on behalf of an elderly woman at the scene, did not mention race in her call. She noted repeatedly to the police dispatcher that she did not know if the men lived at the home and were simply having trouble with their key, and only said that one of the men might be Hispanic when asked...
...Murphy said that her client—"the one person who did not overreact, a woman with no special training who nevertheless did everything right"—had not been asked to join Obama, Gates, and Crowley—"the three highly trained guys who reacted badly"—at the White House. She said that Whalen "doesn't like beer anyways" and joked that "maybe it's a guy thing," but added that she thought it was "strange" how little positive attention has been paid to Whalen...
...study, men who call their lives the "worst possible" are nearly an inch shorter than the average man. The women most down in the dumps are half an inch smaller, on average, than the average woman. Taller people say they are more content, and are less likely to report a range of negative emotions like sadness and physical pain. "Happiness is just one more thing that taller people have going for them," says Angus Deaton, a Princeton economist and co-author of the study, who stands a smug 6 ft. 4 in. (Full disclosure: I, too, am about...
Whalen, who said in the call that another older woman at the scene alerted her to the possible break-in, repeatedly noted that she was not sure what was happening or "if these are two individuals who actually work there [or] live there." She said that once the two men had entered the home, she looked more closely and noticed two suitcases...
...just saw it from a distance, and this older woman was worried thinking, 'somebody's breaking in someone's house, they've been barging in,'" Whalen said to the dispatcher. "And she interrupted me, and that's when I had noticed, otherwise I probably wouldn't have noticed it at all, to be honest with you. So I was just calling because she was a concerned neighbor, I guess...