Texas judge William Adams, who ironically presides over child abuse cases, caused uproar when daughter Hillary Adams uploaded a video on YouTube of him savagely beating her with a belt when she was sixteen years old. According to Hillary, the abuse was not a one-time thing. Her mother, Hallie Adams who has since divorced William, claimed that her ex-husband had bouts of violence caused by his "addiction," which they kept as a "family secret" for a long time. Because the statute of limitations has lapsed, William cannot be charged with child abuse, although it is yet to be seen whether his care...

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... the stress caused by the police questioning. The barman's lawyer publicly marked Knox as Satanic, diabolic, a witch, and a she-devil - all terms that would surface again during her trial and play a major role in her conviction (The Telegraph). Vedova urged the court to correct their mistake, and claimed that Knox was the victim of a "tragic judicial case" in his closing arguments. "That's exactly ... why we have appeals - courts can make mistakes. Nobody is infallible," he said to the jury (USA Today). "Knox has been crucified, impaled in a public square, subjected to the most sinister ...

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... one of the most liberal members of the House. However, many leaders fear that his measure would pass with backing from an unlikely coalition of liberals and conservatives. This would send the wrong message to allies engaged in other conflicts with the United States. The other option was proposed by Speaker John A. Boehner, which called for President Obama ... to paint a clearer picture for Americans on why we are engaged in the Libya mission (Steinhauer). "The president really does need to step up and help the American people understand why these missions are vital to the national secur...

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... County Circuit Judge Stan Strickland intended for Anthony's probation to begin to day she was released from jail, but he then signed an order that allowed her probation period to coincide when she was awaiting trial for the murder of her daughter. An amendment was made to the order on August 1, 2011 that included the words "upon release" to clarify Strickland's intentions (CNN). A spokesman for the Orange County ... State Attorney's Office, Randy Means, declined to comment on the matter. "We don't think we have ... the Florida Department of Corrections. "We haven't determined exactly w...

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... position of president, and a heavy legacy of failure and crimes awaits you. A failure in Iraq to which you have admitted and a failure in Afghanistan to which the commanders of your army have admitted." The speaker also spoke about Obama's plan to remove troops from Iraq and send them to Afghanistan, saying that that is a policy that was "destined for failure before it was born .The ... dogs of Afghanistan have found the flesh of your soldiers to be delicious, so send thousands after thousands to them." The message also addressed past controversies over Obama's religion: "You were born ...

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... or in retaliation for Obama's "theft" of the election. Either way, Palin is both a boon and a problem for McCain's campaign, and here are a few reasons why: Benefits of choosing Palin For McCain there are several benefits to choosing such a neophyte on the political stage. First, she counters Barack Obama's youth appeal - what could be more youthful than a woman who just gave birth ... Sarah Palin still has some resonance with Hillary Clinton supporters who, whether out of racism or spite, would rather vote for anyone than Obama. Her positions on guns, abortion, and family values (her pr...

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... our goals." In an emailed statement he reportedly wrote that the university "strongly condemns the anti-Semitic remarks made by Helen Thomas" (Collins). As a daughter of Lebanese immigrants in Detroit, Thomas is believed to have had problems with Jews. She was the first female officer of the National Press Club and the first female member of the White House Correspondents ... Thomas saying that the Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" and return home to "Poland, Germany and America and everywhere else." After this initial incident, Thomas was forced to quit her job as a columnist...

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... community service and 12 months of probation. She was even excused from paying the $1,000 fines that the judge could have potentially imposed. However, Judge Katherine Tanksley offered her a new trial and a chance to clear her name (Garner). The man who killed 4-year-old A.J. Nelson, Jerry L. Guy, was charged with five years in prison, but he was released after only six months of ... somebody what happened, she will have to relive this. She already has to relive it everyday. Her debt is paid. Every time she talks to her other children about A.J., or when she calls to check on his teache...

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... prostitution charges, and forced to submit to "virginity checks." At that time, Major Amr Imam admitted that 17 women had been arrested but denied that torture or "virginity checks" were ever conducted. However, a senior general has recently admitted that the tests were conducted and even defended the practice (Amin). "The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine," he said ... . "These were girls who had camped out in tents with male protestors in Tahrir Square, and we found in the tents Molotov cocktails and drugs. We didn't want them to say we had sexually assaulted ...

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To add to the growing tension between Iran and the United States, members of the Iranian Parliament's human rights committee have taken a strong, public stand against the planned execution of a woman in Virginia. According to a British newspaper, "the parliamentary human rights committee said her case reflected ...

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... involving two different women, although he later remembered the first accusation and denies remembering the second accusation altogether (Oliphant). "My general counsel said this started out where (an accuser) and her lawyer were demanding a huge financial settlement. I don't remember a number. But then he said because there was no basis for this, we ended up settling for what would have been a termination ... , "and later as I thought about it and thought about it and I did recall an agreement with the lady that left who made the false accusation. So that's when I said yes, there was an...

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... the sense that they both strive to offer everything to their customers so that they never have use another company's product. For instance, Microsoft aimed to offer software, like its Windows operating system, and the gateway to the web, such as its Internet Explorer browser. Likewise, Google expanded beyond its search browser to allow its users to send emails, place calls, look for ... directions, and buy a smartphone. In essence, Google users never have to use a non-Google product (Huffington Post). ... "Google is the next generation of Microsoft in that it has created a trusted corpo...

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... now fighting against them. Gorbachev questions, "But what's the alternative - another Vietnam? Sending in half a million troops? That wouldn't work" (AOL News). Gorbachev said that the best NATO could hope to achieve was to help the country get back on its feet and rebuild itself after the war (BBC). NATO secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, announced that he is talking ... of Afghan security forces in Russia, we can co-operate on counter-narcotics," he said (Burns). Despite Gorbachev's warning, Obama is considering a military request to send in as many as 400,000 more US soldiers ...

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... there, he joked "I'm in the interest of being more neighborly. Maybe we would have gotten off on a better foot if I had brought over a fruitcake when I first moved in. But I'm going to make up for it." The two groups got off on a bad start after the Chamber spent tens of millions of dollars fighting Obama's health-care bills, opposing key elements of ... sales calls for American products and cut burdensome regulations. While setting a conciliatory tone before he sends the budget to the House next week, Obama urged companies to recognize their responsibilities to workers and consumers (S...

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Katha Pollitt in her article entitled, "Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls" illuminates a very powerful social movement in history that has succeeded in many institutions. This was the Feminist Movement that spawned ... initially socialized into the people that they will become, if the family fails to adhere to gender neutrality than the whole Feminist ideal has failed. It can be said the movement did cause a change in behaviors, where women were afforded equal rights under the law, the right to chose in in Roe vs. Wade, among other advances, but a change ... parents of today were the first recip...

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... . It was more about seeing why she keeps going to work every day more than it was the career I wanted to study. On that day, I learned why grandma got out of bed and went to work with a smile on her face. Nursing was not just a job. It was a career that allowed her to meet patients that needed her. It was a career that allowed her to meet with families and offer them ... hope. As I followed my grandma through the day, I realized that I wanted to be a nurse. I wanted to make a difference ... rewarding. It is challenging at times, but when you see a patient able to go home with his or her...

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... African-American president - both potential history-making moments. Voting turnouts broke some records, and with the election of Senator Barack Obama, the United States allowed a new era of American politics to be ushered in. And the way it all happened was revolutionary, too. The Internet has, it seems, forever changed the way Americans experience their political lives. The Internet has infiltrated ... , we shop online, we work online, and we form social relationships online. And, in the presidential race of 2008, Americans got political online. The Internet gave voters a new, direct li...

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... for the French presidency before the allegations were brought against him, denies all the charges but admits to consensual relations with the maid (BBC). Diallo stepped forward to give her first interview to Newsweek magazine, where she adamantly stood behind her original claims. "I want him to go to jail. I want him to know there are some places you cannot use your power, you cannot use your money. God ... about the attack. In another recount she said she had actually cleaned more rooms before she eventually informed her boss. In yet another story, she said she was so disoriented that ...

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... , who was recently arrested in New York for sexual assault. Lagarde is the first woman to hold this position and was selected by a consensus vote (Rooney), "I am deeply honored have the trust placed in ... me by the Executive Board. I would like to thank the Fund's global membership warmly for the broad-based support I have received. I would also like to express my respect and esteem for my colleague and friend, Agustin Carstens," ... desperately needed a new leader because of their involvement with the European Union and the European Central Bank to provide financial support to Greece a...

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... interview with Anderson Cooper last month. She claimed she was abducted at a government checkpoint and held for days while officials bound, beat, poured alcohol in her eyes, and gang raped her repeatedly. The accused men plan to sue her, according to government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim (The Huffington Post). Al-Obeidy fled from Libya into Tunisia aided by a defecting military officer and his family. Apparently, she ... al-Obeidy. "We tried all night to prevent her deportation," said Vincent Cochetel of the UNHCR office. UNHCR argued that al-Obeidy had refugee status, but they procured a...

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... and asking lots of questions. One of the most common questions, and one not often answered by the news media is "Why aren't the Banks Getting Loans Instead of Handouts". Believe it or not, the logic behind the choice to give the money rather than loaning it is quite flawless. The reason the press doesn't give you the answer is that the ... on your mortgage. The fed regulates the rate at which banks can borrow money in order to loan consumers money. The fed also closely regulates the credit ratings of the banks that borrow from them. This information is important in answering the questio...

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... reason for this was because they interfered with drilling for oil as well as gas. As strange as that seems, Palin went so far as to sue the Bush administration to try to get this enacted. She outlined her stance on this issue by writing an opinion editorial for the NY Times in January of 08. The article states that polar bears are simply ... in international efforts aimed at preserving polar bear populations worldwide." Then she proceeds to basically try to explain why polar bears need to be removed from the endangered species list. The two positions seem to contradict one another to ma...

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... , but remained unemotional as the judge berated him for his behavior (Ryan). "Yipes! Talk about blaming the victim," Judge Pastor said, referring to Murray's comment on television that Jackson had "entrapped" him. "Not only isn't there any remorse, there is umbrage and outrage on the part ... decedent. He has absolutely no sense of remorse, absolutely no sense of fault and is and remains dangerous" (Ryan). Judge Pastor went on to criticize Murray's tactics of administering surgical anesthetic for insomnia as "horrible medicine" practice, citing that Murray was more interested in his $150...

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... injectable hormones in Africa, while 3 percent, or 1.2 million women, use the contraception in the United States. The study was conducted only in Africa, but scientists see no reason why the findings would be different had the study also involved women in America. However, the effects are most alarming for African women because the transfer of HIV from heterosexual sex ... Gaffeld, an epidemiologist at the organization's department of reproductive health and research. She described the contraceptive as "something that a woman can do privately herself and it doesn't need to be remembered...

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... 's unemployment rate remains painstakingly high. He announced that companies, such as General Electric, United Airlines, and Walgreens, among others, agreed to hire more than 3,000 people since his administration began. He also said the city will focus on filling existing positions to really bring down the unemployment rate (Schneiderman). "There are 120,000 job openings in Chicago," said Emanuel, who served as ... House senior staffer. "Yet we have 9 percent unemployment. Those two facts should not go together" (Schneiderman). Emanuel also targeted the city's community college and job t...

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