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11/4/10

Teacher Punished For Showering With Students

A Welsh teacher is accused of an inappropriate relationship with her female students, after she gave them presents,…

Anna North

PublishedNovember 4, 2010

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10/7/10

Prostitute-Turned-Teacher Offered Chance To Pose Nude

High Society has offered Melissa Petro, the former prostitute recently removed from her Bronx teaching job, $60,000…

Anna North

PublishedOctober 7, 2010

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9/27/10

Teacher Unjustly Punished For Revealing Her Sex-Work Past

An elementary school teacher has been reassigned for publicly revealing her past as a stripper and prostitute. Does…

Anna North

PublishedSeptember 27, 2010

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4/12/10

Carey Mulligan Told "Marry A Banker" Rather Than Act

Strangely enough, when Carey Mulligan isn't posing for the goons at Vogue, she can look quite lovely. And has some in…

Jenna Sauers

PublishedApril 12, 2010

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1/21/10

An Education Director Lone Scherfig Prefers Leading Men

"In all my films, the leading characters are men in their 30s.... Men are much more interesting to me because…

Irin Carmon

PublishedJanuary 21, 2010

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1/21/10

BAFTA Nominations Include Two Female Directors

The Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow and An Education's Lone Scherfig are nominated, as Women & Hollywood points out.…

Irin Carmon

PublishedJanuary 21, 2010

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2/12/08

Marisa Tomei Takes It All Off; Gina Gershon Hangs At The Brothel

*Inspired by Shirley MacLaine's assertion that the best parts for actresses fall into one of the above categories.

Jessica G.

PublishedFebruary 12, 2008

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