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Life Stories (page 371)

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Marissa Alexander (AP/Lincoln B. Alexander)

Katie McDonough

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Philip Seymour Hoffman (AP/Chris Pizzello)

An unusual last request

Mary Elizabeth Williams

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"You even consider rape"

Tracy Clark-Flory

Making feminism a sales pitch

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Ken Ham (Reuters/John Sommers Ii)

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(Eleanor Haswell)

Kanye West (AP/Lionel Cironneau)

"Never lose your dinosaur"

Mary Elizabeth Williams

(AMC/Frank Ockenfels)

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Colin Brazier (Sky News)

Outrage -- and apology

Mary Elizabeth Williams

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Jill Richardson - Alternet

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We've criminalized motherhood

Marie Myung-Ok Lee

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I took back my maiden name

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The truth about clichés

A still from "Act of Valor" (Relativity Media)

Stop calling soldiers "heroes"

Ann Coulter, Tim Howard (Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com/AP/Julio Cortez)

Ann Coulter' soccer nightmare

My real-life "Footloose"

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