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I hated life with him,” she said, staring at the ground in front of her. The wedding came so quickly that no one bothered to tell her how women become pregnant, or what a wife’s role is . . Nujood complained repeatedly to her husband’s relatives and later to her own parents after the couple moved back to their house in Sana. . On April 2, she said, she walked out of the house by herself and hailed a taxi. It was the first time she had traveled anywhere alone, Nujood recalled, and she was frightened.

The point is, these grievance systems that were seen by Congress as a way to limit the power of prisoners to get to court may actually empower them at some level. Even though it is unlikely to succeed at changing conditions, filing a grievance may be a form of resistance— l aw in the e v er y da y, e v er y w her e 41 an assertion of agency, the catharsis of telling one’s story, and the rare opportunity to exact revenge-by-paperwork on one’s captors. So, law may contribute to hegemony as Gramsci explained, but it may also be used at the microlevel to fight back, or at least to fight for one’s dignity.

O. J. Simpson’s fame as Heisman Trophy winner and one of football’s greatest running backs was dwarfed by the infamy of his trial for the 1994 murder of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. His not-guilty verdict in October 1995 was watched on live television by over half the American population. By then, virtually every adult in the United States could tell you the most obscure details about the case and the trial, and we all had become instant pundits, second-guessing the jury decision with the confidence of experts and the passion of a populace aroused.

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