Word: use
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...into another man's mouth. In another a man's fist and forearm is seen inserted into a man's rectum. Two images -- a nude boy on a chair and a little girl whose dress is raised in a way that exposes her genitals -- led to charges of illegal use of a minor, though the mothers of the children gave Mapplethorpe permission to take the photographs and the center to display them. "Where would you draw the line?" asks Monty Lobb, president of Citizens for Community Values, a local group that first drew the show to the sheriff's attention...
First in a trickle, now in an increasing stream, the state benches are using that prerogative. In New York, Connecticut, North Carolina and New Jersey, for example, the highest courts have refused to follow the U.S. Supreme Court in allowing prosecutors to use illegally seized evidence. The high court ruled in 1984 that such evidence was admissible so long as police obtained a warrant and were acting in "good faith." In California, Massachusetts and New Jersey, state supreme court judges have decided that their constitutions demand public financing of abortions for poor women, even though the U.S. Supreme Court...
...adversaries take Saddam at his word. The Iraqi's remarks, said U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, are the "first evidence that in fact he's really beginning to feel the pain" of the sanctions. As his discomfort grows, said Cheney, Saddam may "use his military force to try to break the stranglehold...
...massively, but conventionally -- unless Saddam launches a chemical attack and threatens Saudi Arabia's survival. "If our calculations prove wrong and half of Riyadh is destroyed," says an Arab official privy to the war gaming now under way, "then I wouldn't be surprised if tactical nuclear weapons were used, and I don't think many would resist their use...
...case against nukes, however, is strong. Besides the taboo that has existed since Nagasaki, and the problem of precedent ("The temptation for other countries to use nukes would increase if we use them in the gulf," says a Pentagon official), there is the post-crisis environment to consider. No matter the reason, an American atomic strike in the gulf would signal that, unique among the world's present hot spots, the Middle East is the region where the West views life as so cheap that any weapon of war is justified. The problems of repair -- physical, psychological and political...