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Unfortunately, because Gordon and Riger never describe a typical rape, the reader is confused as to the feasability of the solutions the authors propose. Gordon and Riger advocate a nine-point plan that includes a revision of existing rape laws, a reform of media coverage and increased rape education in schools. Although hypothetically desirable, this plan lacks concrete applications. The authors often remain content with generalities rather than pragmatic solutions...

Author: By Carol J. Margolis, | Title: Fear of Rape But Not Its Prevention | 4/19/1991 | See Source »

With so many effortlessly available (or tantalizingly unavailable) women around, it is not surprising that our Casanova overcomes his physical impotence. The reader is also not puzzled when Max permanently abandons any hope of retrieving his moral potency. By the chaotic end of the novel, he has become incoherent and amoral, a prisoner of his own cravings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tale of Sex and Scum in Poland | 4/19/1991 | See Source »

...lives up to the book's title--indeed, his amorality and ultimate powerlessness make his character supremely unsympathetic. However, Singer enables the reader to appreciate Max's society even as we grow to dislike him. The presentation of decaying Jewish Warsaw is thoroughly moving, perhaps more so because the culture was completely destroyed during World...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tale of Sex and Scum in Poland | 4/19/1991 | See Source »

...true that a reader of the Torah could find homophobic regulations in the text. But virtually no question of Jewish law is settled by literal application of the Torah, as Webb and DeGiorgio would have it. Traditional Jewish scholars spend years and lifetimes arguing the meanings of every sentence. It is from those discussions that Jewish law is made...

Author: By Richard A. Primus, | Title: Whose Religion Is It, Anyway? | 4/17/1991 | See Source »

Adjusted gross income included Bush's $200,000 salary, $245,911 from his blind trust and $1000 that Barbara Bush made for an article she sold to Reader's Digest last fall on the importance of reading to children...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Bushes Paid $99K In Taxes Last Year | 4/16/1991 | See Source »

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