"He didn't know my mother and I found it disrespectful to talk about someone else's mother, " he said.

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This week I got the chance to talk with the actress, educator and mother of two to talk about the STEM gender gap and her (highly) educated guess as to what can be done.

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Likewise, Samaruddin's mother does not talk about her son having died for a greater cause.

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Ms. MINNIJEAN BROWN TRICKEY (Little Rock Nine): My mother won't talk about this to anyone.

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Her father is currently in hospital, officials say, and her mother is too distressed to talk about the execution.

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Mother did not like to talk about Taleb.

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Cook, 25, dropped by CNN's New York offices (with his mother, Beth Foraker, in tow) to talk about keeping creative control, losing his privacy and his responsibility as Idol No. 7.

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"Precious, " a gritty film about the struggles of a teen mother, got a major boost when talk-show host Oprah Winfrey and filmmaker Tyler Perry got behind the movie as executive producers after its success at the Sundance Film Festival.

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The professorial-looking guy with white hair introduces himself as Alan George and follows the resident, a married mother of two, up a flight of stairs to her apartment to talk about household products.

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