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...pulled under by the media wave surrounding Condit. But it becomes a bit harder every day to remember anything about Levy herself. If you read his fumbling admissions, sent out in a form letter to constituents earlier this week, it's apparent that Condit himself has fallen victim to that whirlwind. The letter is petulant, indignant, unhelpful - and it's all about Gary Condit...
...Their conclusion: The racing legend was the victim of a disastrous chain of events. He hit the wall at 160 mph, just milliseconds after his car was hit broadside - and to top it all off, his seatbelt ripped apart during the crash. Those events conspired to fling the unprotected back of Earnhardt?s head against the steering wheel, the support behind his seat or both...
...Instead of circling their wagons around one of their own, amejo and kokujo are disdainful of and angry at the victim. Some gossip she dated the defendant; others speculate her friends shamed her into calling it a rape. They all agree the incident has brought unwanted, critical attention to them and their habits. "Amejo is a derogatory term, isn't it?" says Hitomi Murayama, a long-haired 24-year-old in baggy hip-hop clothing. "It's just another way for mainland Japanese to look down on Okinawa. They don't understand that we Okinawans are naturally friendly and outgoing...
...shows like Sex in the City this kind of talk isn't even titillating. But in Japan, admitting a sex life is scandalous and can scuttle a woman's credibility?nowhere more so than in a trial for rape. "The defendant's lawyer can use the number of a victim's sexual partners as evidence," says Yukiko Tsunoda, a lawyer in Shizuoka. "To win a rape case, a plaintiff often must prove violence, a threat to her life, and that she resisted with all her might...
...court of public opinion, both Woodland and his accuser have taken a beating. In late July the putative victim sent a letter to the media begging Japanese reporters to stop hounding her and her friends. "There is victim-bashing both in the press and the public," says Suzuyo Takazato, founder of the Rape Emergency Intervention Counseling Center in Okinawa and an Okinawan assemblywoman. Makiko Tanaka, Japan's female Foreign Minister, is reported to have said to colleagues there must have been "something wrong with the girl, going out so late at night." Old-fashioned attitudes impose shame and blame...