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• A-list women celebrate their own in Hollywood
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - In the year of “Sex and the City,” perhaps it’s no surprise that an event honoring women drew some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Nicole Kidman, Jane Fonda, Jennifer Lopez, Diane Keaton and Halle Berry joined dozens ...
• Iraqi women fear going public as candidates
BAGHDAD - The 38-year-old teacher wanted to participate in Iraq's first provincial elections in four years — until she realized that a new law would require the ballot to list her name, not just her party. Even as violence has declined, lingering ...
• When Palin talks, women talk
More often than not, when someone poses the simple question, "How are you," we answer with an equally simple, "Fine." Why do we do this, when in fact, we frequently are not "fine"? While this is not exactly lying, this behavior can stop us from ...
• Bogus baby boom: Women who collect lifelike dolls
They’re called “reborns”: incredibly lifelike baby dolls that sell for up to $4,000 to adult women who collect them, change their clothes, and in some ways treat them like real babies. “It fills a spot in your heart,” Lynn Katsaris told ...
• O.J. Simpson seeks new robbery trial
The final jury of nine women and three men included one woman who identified herself as Hispanic, but no blacks. Simpson's lawyers asserted there was not enough evidence to support first-degree kidnapping convictions and faulted questions used to cull ...