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A woman's choice

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Weddington had more than a professional motivation when she argued successfully for the right to a legal abortion before the US Supreme Court in 1973. This attorney, credited with the creation of Roe v Wade, had to undergo an illegal abortion in Mexico to save her law school career in 1967.

Author: Bennetts, Leslie
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Vanity Fair
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0733-8899
Year: 1992
Practice, Women attorneys, Women lawyers, Authorship, Abortion, Weddington, Sarah Ragle, A Question of Choice (Book)

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Unholy alliances

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The Catholic Church faces a plethora of lawsuits involving priests who have committed acts of pedophilia. The Church has failed to cope with the problem. In some cases, it has protected its clergy, as in the case of former New Orleans, LA, priest Dino Cinel.

Author: Bennetts, Leslie
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Vanity Fair
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0733-8899
Year: 1991
Sexual behavior, Crimes against, Child sexual abuse, Clergy, Catholic Church, Pedophilia, Boys, Cinel, Dino

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The man who was Mame

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Author Patrick Dennis, who produced the character Mame in his 1955 book Auntie Mame, is discussed. His life was nearly as colourful as this character as a biography to be released in November 2000 will reveal.

Author: Bennetts, Leslie
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Vanity Fair
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0733-8899
Year: 2000
Authors, Writers, Behavior, Biography, Criticism and interpretation, Auntie Mame (book), Dennis, Patrick

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