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Bella Is a Lousy Role Model, but Do We Only Care Because She's a Girl?

Scott Mendelson | Posted 11.24.2009 | Entertainment

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Scott Mendelson

What is worth noting is that all of these male characters are basically users and abusers of their friends, family, and lovers. Yet Bella is attacked in various circles because she allows herself to be abused and used.

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Wall Street, Somalia, and Jack Sparrow

John Feffer | Posted 03.06.2009 | World

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John Feffer

Why are more than a dozen of the world's navies converging on Somalia to battle pirates there instead of sailing into New York to capture the Wall Street pirates?

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Johnny Depp To Play Jack Sparrow (Again!) And Wonderland's Mad Hatter

Variety | Posted 10.26.2008 | Entertainment

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Johnny Depp is the main man at the Mouse House. Depp has agreed to reprise his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in a fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" pi...

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