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...girl, what mattered after delivering the baby was cloaking her latest humiliation in a thin veil of dignity. On the way to school, she reportedly told a friend, "There's been a rumor that I'm pregnant, but I'm not," and invited the girl to feel her tender stomach. "She refused to admit that she had given birth once she lost the baby," a friend of the family said. "It was as if she could not comprehend it." Her teachers didn't help: though she had faithfully attended classes, they say they never realized she was pregnant...
...cement business -- rebels by marrying a handsome, lower- class Italian girl. It is their daughter Maggie who is trying desperately to master some object lessons during her 12-year-old summer. Though she is much brighter than friends and cousins; they are maturing faster than she; her pregnant mother dallies with an old friend; her grandfather orders her parents to move into a bigger house he has acquired for them and then has a serious stroke...
...history to employ the word asshole and the Yiddish meshugaas. Yet, as in Marilyn Klinghoffer's homey pieta, Goodman can soar. "I have only a short time," the widow sings after learning of her husband's death. "What can part us while I live? I grieve as a pregnant woman grieves for the unseen long-imagined...
Justice Antonin Scalia would have allowed companies only a little more latitude. In a concurring opinion, he suggested that in rare instances employers might be permitted to exclude pregnant women from jobs where the ensuing costs for ensuring a woman's health care would be "inordinately expensive." But Scalia had already telegraphed his rejection of Johnson Controls' practices. Last October, when the case was argued before the court, Scalia, who has fathered nine children, took the company's lawyer to task for making "a farce of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act." That act, a 1978 amendment to Title VII, ensured that...
...Congress made clear that the decision . . . to work while being either pregnant or capable of becoming pregnant was reserved for each individual woman to make for herself...