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This is an astonishing conclusion. In fact, it has been through the work of feminists--academics, psychologists, lawyers, survivors of rape, childhood sexual abuse and battering--that public awareness has been called to the lack of "particular care and respect" historically paid to women, and that laws have been crafted and enacted which, by holding those who rape, abuse and batter accountable for their actions, perforce socialize them...
...Crimson showed some signs of life in their last at bat, though, as Amy Belisle led off the inning with a hit. Amanda Dawson, the next batter for Harvard, reached first on an error by Springfield's thirdbaseman, Carolyn Marchi, which allowed Belisle to score from first...
...allied pilots struck at Iraq's front-line bunkers and continued to batter Baghdad yesterday...
...wintry wind of recession is beginning to batter Detroit. Car-dealer showrooms have become uncomfortably quiet in the past several weeks. Consumers are staying away because of increasing layoffs, widespread credit tightening among banks and climbing gasoline prices. Detroit has tried to keep sales up by discounting aggressively, but that has only hurt profits. When the Big Three posted their third-quarter earnings last week, the results were dismal. Ford's profits fell 79% from a year ago, to $101.7 million, its worst performance in eight years. Chrysler fared even worse, showing a $214 million loss, compared with...
Most men, of course, do not rape or batter or kill. But that doesn't mean, as too many of them seem to think, that they have nothing to do with violence against women. Each of us in our daily lives helps shape the cultural images and assumptions that define the limits of the permissible. In the case of racial bigotry, we see this clearly: civilized whites don't tell racist jokes or defend the virulent gabfests on talk radio as harmless spleen venting. Where violence and misogyny are concerned, though, men just don't seem to get it. Give...