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Katie Aselton, Lake Bell and Kate Bosworth survive 'Black Rock'
The premise is familiar: Three young women on a camping trip find themselves under siege from three unhinged attackers and fight back. But what happens in “Black Rock” is unexpected, as rather than a more typical story of female empowerment...
Tags: Celebrities, Film Festivals, Human Interest, Mark Duplass, Movies
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Plantation doctor aims to help abused women in India
Little girls as young as 4 attacked, brutalized, even killed. A female college student gangraped on a moving bus. Women of all ages ravaged and disfigured by relatives and strangers alike. In India, women have increasingly become targets of unbridled...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Plantation, India, General Practitioners, Cosmetic Procedures
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Women can't be president in Iran, senior cleric says
TEHRAN — Iran’s next president will not be a woman. No surprise there, but a senior religious figure, Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, made it official in comments Wednesday to a group of clerics and theology students, according to the conservative...
Tags: Saudi Arabia, Islam, Politics, Religion and Belief, Elections
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Two sets of rules in the city
I spoke at City Council on March 12 and March 19 regarding the gender discrimination and ethnic bigotry that are alive and well in Glendale. Witness the council meeting of March 12, when council member Laura Friedman reported that a person appointed...Tags: Minority Groups, Local Elections
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Marcelyn J. 'Marcy' Henrikson, 1934-2013
Marcy Henrikson was a supporter of the civil rights movement in the 1960s and marched for women's rights in the 1970s. But she wasn't proud of her initial reaction 30 years ago when she learned her teenage daughter was lesbian, her family said. She...
Tags: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Minority Groups, Elgin, Justice and Rights, Lung Cancer
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Family values and the new economy
My mother went into paid work soon after my father's clothing store was flooded out in a hurricane, almost wiping him out. She had no choice. We needed the money. This was some two decades before a tidal wave of wives and mothers went into paid work....
Tags: Robert B. Reich, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation
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Doctoring in a family way
Jennifer was one of my first patients as a new doctor, and she came to see me about an unintended pregnancy. A single mom to a rambunctious 5-year-old girl, Jennifer was struggling economically and battling depression. We talked about the options...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Health Treatments, Abortion, General Practitioners, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Robin Abcarian: Ongoing Arnold-Maria saga entering new chapters
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, California's most, ah, colorful former first couple, were back in the news last week. Using his own life as an example of the American Dream, Schwarzenegger argued for immigration reform during a panel...Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Politics, Executive Branch, The Last Stand (movie), Alzheimer's Disease
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Feminists oppose Berlin's Barbie Dreamhouse
The opening this month of the first life-sized Barbie Dreamhouse in Europe may be the fantasy of many a little girl, but Berlin feminists are mobilising against what they call a sexist icon. With her ironed-straight blond tresses, doe-like baby blue...Tags: Marketing, Barbie (fictional character), Media Industry, Toy Industry, Occupy Wall Street
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Filmmakers to ask women, 'What ... if you weren't afraid?'
There's a new energy in the women's empowerment movement, experts say, one that focuses on issues far beyond suffrage or equal pay. Women today are asserting that they can have it all: The career, the family and the dreams. Two Chicago filmmakers are...
Tags: Kickstarter, Sundance Film Festival, Danica Patrick
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Justice Ginsburg: Roe v. Wade not 'woman-centered'
Tribune reporterForty years after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade case legalized abortion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the case is not her "ideal picture" for resolving the controversial issue of abortion. Instead, the landmark decision gave...Tags: U.S. Air Force, Colleges and Universities, Abortion, Justice and Rights, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Creativity Meets Politics at Wesleyan's Davison Art Center
Artists Take Action On view through May 26, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, 301 High St., Middletown, (860) 685-3864, wesleyan.edu/dac Some of these posters can be downloaded from the alliance's website or purchased as stand-alone works....
Tags: Davison Art Center, Minority Groups, Politics, Justice and Rights, Middletown
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