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...women who get raped are raped by people they already know -- like the boy in biology class, or the guy in the office down the hall, or their friend's brother. The familiarity is enough to make them let down their guard, sometimes even enough to make them wonder afterward whether they were "really raped." What people think of as "real rape" -- the assault by a monstrous stranger lurking in the shadows -- accounts for only 1 out of 5 attacks...
...year for the Florida supreme court. Stranded at the courthouse, she accepted a lift from a lawyer involved in her project. As they chatted on the ride home, she recalls, "he was saying all the right things, so I started to trust him." She agreed to have dinner, and afterward, at her hotel door, he convinced her to let him come in to talk. "I went through the whole thing about being old-fashioned," she says. "I was a virgin until I was 21. So I told him talk was all we were going...
...hands around my throat," she recalls. In a lawsuit she has filed against the college, she charges that he locked the door and raped her again and again for the next four hours. "I didn't want him to kill me. I just kept trying not to cry." Only afterward did he tell her, almost defiantly, his name. It was near the top of the "castration list" posted on women's bathroom walls around campus to warn other students about college rapists...
...Football Team who took it upon themselves to terrorize opponents -- real or imagined -- in the black township of Soweto. Increasingly imperious, Winnie was denounced in 1989 by other black leaders for having "violated human rights . . . in the name of the struggle against apartheid." She visited Nelson in prison shortly afterward, and though it is not known what he told her, a chastened Winnie immediately lowered her profile...
...Well," says a senior Administration official, "we promised to try. We didn't exactly link dealing with Saddam to a serious attempt to waddle around in this mess afterward, but that was clearly the President's message to the Arabs, and we are determined to keep our word. None of the toing and froing may go anywhere, which is obviously where you'd have to put your money if you cared to bet, but history shows that whenever a Middle East peace process is at least perceived to be ongoing, the chances for war recede...