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...Writing in Playboy, radical feminist Germaine Greer suggests that rape means not just taking by force but taking by fame, charisma, insincere tenderness, or hints of favors to come or largesse to be withdrawn. It is even rape when a lonely woman goes to bed with a man not because she wants sex but because she "would like to develop some sort of relationship with him." Writes Greer: "The man who has it in his power to hire and fire women from an interesting or lucrative position may extort sexual favors. A man who is famous or charismatic might humiliate...
...neighborhoods a tremendous boost in confidence, but they have also effectively deterred criminals and in several instances stopped crimes in progress. In the five months the program has been in effect, the crime rate has dropped 17% in the pilot areas. Foot patrolmen so far have interrupted a rape, prevented an enraged young man from shooting his girl friend, recovered a stolen automobile, stumbled upon the victim of a fatal shooting and apprehended numerous suspects for armed robbery and possession of drugs. In one typical week in November, they stopped 37 people for questioning, gave 21 parking tickets, checked...
...could be spared, and almost any activity of the Vietnamese people was an obstruction. Finally even the idea that the Vietnamese were human became intolerable, so the military, while physically destroying them, intellectually transformed them into animals, beasts of prey fit for disembowelment, target practice, endless incarceration, torture, and rape. "It's like someone invited you to their farm and said you can stay as long as you want, you can go hunting all you want, and have as much ammo as you want," said Sergeant Camil. "And the officers reward you for every dead body...
...battle was joined over the issue of abortion. To counter a liberal abortion bill, the conservatives proposed a bill of their own that outlawed abortion altogether except when a panel of three physicians certified that the mother's life was endangered. It made no allowance for victims of rape, incest or mental illness. Supporting the conservative bill, the Catholic Conference ran a long and costly campaign that included weekly pictures of truncated fetuses and aborted embryos on Page One of the Cathotic Standard & Times, the official organ of the archdiocese of Philadelphia. Last June the campaign paid...
...tried," still another grouses that the conferences occasionally get bogged down with "war stories about famous cases I have judged." The occasional jokes that lighten the sessions tend to be a bit lawyerly. "For instance," explains a Justice, "somebody might say in the middle of a rape-case discussion, 'I think the central question here is the same problem we faced in that antitrust case a few minutes ago: Was there consent?' It doesn't seem too funny now, but it gets a big laugh at the time...