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They were thrown their first curve as soon as they reached the grandmother's house after an all-night drive along the East coast...
This attitude sparks rage among women who carry scars received at the hands of men they knew. It makes no difference if the victim shared a drink or a moonlit walk or even a passionate kiss, they protest, if the encounter ended with her being thrown to the ground and forcibly violated. Date rape is not about a misunderstanding, they say. It is not a communications problem. It is not about a woman's having regrets in the morning for a decision she made the night before. It is not about a "decision" at all. Rape is rape...
...Revlon's pension plan and skimmed off at least $50 million in "excess funding." He then rolled existing pension obligations into Executive Life annuities. Says Eli Schefer, a retired Revlon engineer in Sands Point, N.Y.: "Those were cozy deals, not done according to fiduciary standards. These guys should be thrown in jail. Now that I am almost 72, I've got to worry about when my next pension check is coming, and from where it is coming. It's outrageous...
...president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which operates nearly 900 clinics in 49 states, called the decision to halt abortion counseling "an unimaginable blow to free speech." From Capitol Hill came rumblings that liberty of expression had been, as Democratic Congressman Ron Wyden of Oregon put it, "thrown into the trash can." But the toughest counterpunch was landed by Blackmun, who charged the court with "viewpoint- based suppression of speech...
...property's lakes into a semitropical jungle and bird sanctuary, a place of bamboo and palms, of plants from Central and South America, India, China and the Canary Islands. The intention was to populate the island mostly with lifelike robot birds, with a few real ones thrown in for charm's sake. But the living birds attracted hundreds of others, which flew in from all around the region...