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Equality feminism rejects the idea that there are separate female standards of morality or justice, that there is a "woman's way" of approaching the world. To assert different natures for men and women is to deny our common humanity. Believing in gender war brings women no closer to their goals of equal treatment. Instead, men and women continually switch roles of domination and submission in a societal game of S&M. Equality deteriorates from a vision of true partnership between the sexes to a hope that men will spend equal time on the bottom...
...government will not assert exemptions to protect the privacy interests of any terrorist abductors who are mentioned in documents." --United States Attorney Eric Holder in a letter to Jerry Anderson, the former Associated Press reporter who was held hostage by terrorists in Lebanon for nearly seven years. Anderson had filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act asking the government to release documents pertaining to his captivity. Initially, the Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI and CIA all told him that because of various privacy protections in federal law, he would have to get notarized permission from his former captors...
...Catechism explains: "The task of giving an authentic interpretation of the Word of God, whether in its written form or in the form of Tradition, has been entrusted to the living, teaching office of the Church alone" (emphasis added). What kind of Catholic would assert that his own conscience is an authority greater than that of the Church...
Some consultants point the finger at Deric, saying he is too clingy and possessive of her. She admits that she wants to assert herself, but as we find out, it is only to be in control of ending her life whenever she wants. She has hidden bottles of sleeping pills all over the house. Diana and Deric are finally allowed to see their file when one consultant tells them the reason they have not gotten any help is because the first doctor who ever saw her diagnosed her as suffering from hysteria. Since then all the other doctors have subscribed...
...death? That's exactly what happened, according to the lawyer for one of two youths charged with murdering James Jordan. He reportedly died last July while he slept in a car parked alongside a North Carolina highway. Court papers the defense filed today in Robeson County, North Carolina, assert that Jordan staged the death to avoid huge gambling and business debts, as well as a threatened paternity suit in Illinois.Sources close to the case tell TIME reporter Lisa Towle that the defense has evidence that no blood was found in the car. Furthermore, the defense claims it has been denied...