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...should also hope for an all-male jury, preferably composed of fathers with daughters. Prosecutors have found that women tend to be harsh judges of one another -- perhaps because to find a defendant guilty is to entertain two grim realities: that anyone might be a rapist, and that every woman could find herself a victim. It may be easier to believe, the experts muse, that at some level the victim asked for it. "But just because a woman makes a bad judgment, does that give the guy a moral right to rape her?" asks Dean Kilpatrick, director of the Crime...
...Feshbachs received confidential information from FDA employees. The brothers seem aligned with Scientology's war on psychiatry and medicine: many of their targets are health and biotechnology firms. "Legitimate short selling performs a public service by deflating hyped stocks," says Robert Flaherty, the editor of Equities magazine and a harsh critic of the brothers. "But the Feshbachs have damaged scores of good start...
...conservative stalwarts, illustrates a revolution running low on zeal. Today Rafsanjani faces a population exhausted by eight years of war with Iraq, domestic political turmoil and a severe economic slump. The President seems to realize he must respond to those hardships, and thus has tried to ease the harsh enforcement of hijab. More important, Rafsanjani wants to end Iran's pariah status in the world community and gain desperately needed aid. "We are in a period of reconstruction," says Rajaie Khorassani, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Majlis (parliament). In a more terse analysis, a Western diplomat concludes...
...possible only because his credentials as an Islamic revolutionary are impeccable. Yet he has consistently shown political acumen and moderation throughout his government career. Several times he won popular elections to posts, and in Friday prayers his easy manner is refreshing to a country tired of harangues from harsh-tongued mullahs. In his famous November sermon, for example, Rafsanjani argued that young people were being asked to deny the "sexual urge" for too long, and that "temporary marriage," a Shi'ite institution endorsing sexual liaisons for fixed periods of time, ought to be more widely accepted. Says a Western diplomat...
PART OF WHAT attracted to me to Harvard was the grass--good grass, green and alive. It is grass that once led acting Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky to describe Harvard Yard as a "oasis" in the midst "of everchanging urban squalor." While this might be too harsh a criticism of Cambridge, Rosovsky's point is well taken. There is something very appealing about a field of green in the middle...