Mayawati, Jayalalithaa and Banerjee have suffered even physical assaults by uncouth rivals, a remarkable pattern that reveals how high the odds are stacked against women politicians in India.

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"It was a little bit uncouth, " he said.

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Spurned by the British as a colonial, from an uncouth continent, he exacted the perfect revenge: he colonized their imagination.

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About to go in for a prostate operation and in need of feminine comfort, Maurice makes the uncouth, slatternly young woman the nearest target for his seductions.

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