• And as an African-American woman, she would be a ground-breaking choice to lead an agency that has only been led by white men over the course of its 80-year history.

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  • Her lectures at New York University, where she was a professor in the classics department, were virtual one-woman shows as she sought to convey to her students her enthusiasm for Greece.

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  • "She's so experienced in the government, she's extremely intelligent, she's a woman and she's African-American, " said iReporter Kathi Cordsen from Fullerton, California.

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  • She's a one-woman PR machine for Pigeon Forge, and through "Dollywood" is Sevier County's biggest employer.

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  • She was a bone-thin woman with a pretty face, dark eyes, and brown hair that hung down her back.

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  • Labour described Ms Champion as a "clean break" candidate following the scandal surrounding Mr MacShane, and she becomes the first-ever woman MP for the seat.

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  • In flashbacks to Hong Kong, cued by security-camera footage, we can see her smiling happily as, after the restaurant dinner, she spends a pleasant, slightly drunken evening in a glittering casino, during which this ordinary, messing-around woman infects virtually everyone she comes into contact with.

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  • Given this scenario, every single one of us -- except the poor young woman herself -- would recognize that she is not herself, that something is very wrong, that she has an illness.

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  • The curator of the conference and the winner of the TED Prize - this woman, she got her wish granted, literally.

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  • Officers in the helicopter used a thermal imaging camera to spot the 51-year-old woman after she slipped off the footpath.

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  • When she won Cynon Valley for Labour in the 1984 by-election she became only Wales's fourth woman MP and the first for a Valleys seat.

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  • For such a self-possessed woman, she became unduly anxious.

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  • You know, I thought she was gonna be this cold, calculating, stuck-up woman, and I was just surprised to see that she really is just like me and you.

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  • And he watched as she was passed over for promotions simply because she was a woman, but he also saw how she kept getting up -- kept getting up every day, doing that same job year after year without complaint and without regret.

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  • "These defendants, two morally depraved individuals, preyed on a physically and mentally ill 101-year-old woman to steal millions of dollars -- dollars that she had intended to go to help the lives of ordinary New Yorkers, " Seidemann said, echoing his closing argument to the jury.

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