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...first times women had a strong political platform, and many were soon using it to lobby for other freedoms, including suffrage. Yet drinking retained a special stigma. Not only did women do most of their drinking privately in homes or apartments, but they were also loath to publicly admit drinking too much. (When Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in the late 1930s, only one of its 100 members was a woman.) The sexual revolution of the '60s went a long way toward ushering women's drinking--along with so much else--into the open. So did liquor companies, which began targeting...
...women can't hold their liquor as well as men. He looked up and noticed that the women in the room were hardly applauding. "They were a bit offended," he recalls. "There's a tendency to reject anything that shows them as inferior. They don't want to admit the biological difference...
...cured," until the serial molestations and multiple victims and repeat offenders proved it wasn't so. Only the most recalcitrant recidivists were eventually "laicized"--forced to give up their priestly vocation--long after they had done their worst. And if a victim finally sued, the strategy was to admit nothing, buy silence, settle out of court and seal the deal with a confidentiality contract. The church, said Richard Sipe, a former Benedictine monk who testified as an expert for plaintiffs in priest-abuse cases, "took a very defensive position, rather than proactive...
...that's the case, life in Singapore is tougher than the tourist brochures admit. Hardworking Ang Boon (Joshua Ang), dreamy artist Liu Kok (Shawn Lee) and spoiled Terry (Huang Po Ju) get grief from their family and scorn from peers for ending up in the slowest class in school. That shame extends to their parents, who have parallel problems. Terry's father (Richard Low) fears his company will be destroyed by foreign competition, while Liu Kok's father (played by Neo) loses out at work to an incompetent expat because his English is lacking. His wife (the anguished Xiang...
...real charges against them. Megawati had trumpeted the opening of the trials to reavow her administration's commitment to those noble causes. "Some people in our community have lost their pride and have no shame," she told her party supporters last month in Makassar. "They don't want to admit their mistakes...