Word: case
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Deni Elliott, director of Dartmouth's Ethics Institute, contends that "ultimately we're doing women a disservice by separating rape from other violent crimes." A celebrated case in point is that of the Central Park jogger, three of whose alleged assaulters go on trial this month. Because she was raped, newspapers and TV stations have generally refrained from using her name. "If she had merely been beaten and left for dead," Elliott notes, "she would have been named." One journal that did name the jogger was the black-oriented Amsterdam News. Editor in chief Wilbert Tatum argues that the city...
...imperfect world, rights inevitably conflict. There can never be an absolute way of determining whether the press's right to the truth has priority over a citizen's right to privacy. In the case of rape, it may be that the traditional policy of reticence, even if quaintly motivated, still makes sense. Many women applaud Ziegenmeyer's courage. Not every rape victim can be expected to possess...
...Absolutely wrong. It had a profit because it sold a branch. Lincoln was a basket case...
...been firmly under civilian control. "A lot of military people are distressed," says retired U.S. General William Odom, former chief of the National Security Agency who is now at the Hudson Institute, "but it would be a mistake to see the friction as evidence of coup thinking." In any case, he says, the brass is snapping back at its civilian critics with Gorbachev's permission, in order to release some of the tensions...
Even fewer people were aware of the myriad deals Dino had concocted for himself. Case in point: De Laurentiis sold the rights to the sequel King Kong Lives to DEG for $21 million shortly before it opened in 1986. When the picture died on impact (estimated receipts: $2 million), De Laurentiis tried to compensate by giving DEG the rights to even more dubious films, some of which hadn't been made...