Mrs Lees said the role of head teacher had become more challenging and complex and spoke of the "sheer weight of accountability" upon a head teacher's shoulders.

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In one sequence, in a music store, her character, Corinne, straps on an accordion an instrument she tried out as a child and, staggering under the weight of it, throws her head back and lets out a full-throated cackle.

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She stumbled upon the Web site of the Hilton Head Health Institute, a self-billed "weight loss spa retreat center" in South Carolina, and signed up.

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"The fact that we've got two new drugs approved will reaffirm to the public that this truly is a medical problem and there's a place for pharmacotherapy, " says Ed Hendricks, head of the Center for Weight Loss Management, which treated Mrs.

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