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...While the Faculty prepared to vote last spring on the dismissal of two students who were convicted of rape, much of the campus was abuzz about the threat of sexual violence at Harvard...
...tends to be liberals who are willing to speak out," he says. "It's not that conservatives think rape is a good thing, or isn't a problem, but liberals are ready to say 'we need more services, for women...
Thornhill and Palmer aren't endorsing rape, of course. In their article in the latest issue of the Sciences--which is already generating a high volume of buzz although their book, A Natural History of Rape, won't be out until April--they say they just want to correct the feminist fallacy that "rape is not about sex," it's about violence and domination. The authors argue, among other things, that since the majority of victims are women of childbearing age, the motive must be lust and the intent, however unconscious, must be to impregnate. Hence rape...
...letters to Santa Claus. Obviously, humans have been shaped by natural selection (though it's not always so obvious how). We are not the descendants of the kindest or wisest of hominids--only of those who managed, by cunning or luck, to produce a few living offspring. But is rape really an effective strategy for guys who, deep down in their genes, just want to be fruitful and multiply...
Then it began intertwining with several other notorious crimes of the 20th century. In 1991, during the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, a rumor in the press section placed Smith at the Skakel home on the night of the murder in Connecticut that most people had forgotten. The lead proved false but attracted the attention of author Dominick Dunne, an omnipresent analyst of the O.J. Simpson trial and a specialist in high-society true crime; his own daughter was murdered at a young age. Dunne wrote a thinly veiled novelization of the Moxley case, A Season in Purgatory, which became...