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May.11.2013
Lena Jones is back to work in Desert Wives and this time she is up against a polygamist compound. Her intention was to get her client's daughter, Rebecca, out of Prophet Solomon Royal's clutches. Rebecca is only 13 years old and doesn't want to marry Prophet Solomon and her mother doesn't want that...
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Mar.01.2013
I was astonished and disappointed at a recent book store event when the speaker, an esteemed university professor for whom I have great respect, denounced as sexist the terms "jailbait" and "poison" used by “the men” in Of Mice and Men regarding Curley's wife. The offensive language was the...
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Nov.08.2009
Okay, so here we go.... I swore I'd never write about this, and haven't in the nearly 40 years since it happened, but since there's been so much attention focused on a similar crime committed more than 30 years ago by Roman Polanski, I thought it might be helpful to hear from someone who knows...
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Jun.22.2008
No one has mentioned the influence of the film, Juno, on impressionable teenagers in the press reports of the 17 Gloucester, Massachusetts high school alleged "pact" pregnancies that have captured recent headlines ("Teen 'pregancy pact'suspected," www.latimes.com, June 20, 2008...
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