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...husband, who actually held a gun to her head to ensure she performed the acts seen in that movie. This is not what consent looks like. Or take a more familiar example – a young girl who is sexually assaulted by her (take your pick: father, uncle, brother, stepfather, etc) runs away from home to avoid further abuse and turns to prostitution to feed herself (and perhaps her children), because it is the best job she can get. Did she consent? Does it matter that her options are so limited? As MacKinnon pointed out, social science has documented...
...Colombo's air force. "As far as we are concerned, it is a morale boost for the government and we have got another LTTE leader," says Hulugalle. "It also showed that the Air Force has not lost its capacity to strike." Defence Minister Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President Mahinda Rajapaksa's brother, told Reuters that the successful assassination was "a message that we know where their leaders are ... if we want we can take them...
...moves he learned years ago at bars near Daytona Beach. Nacho, as he's nicknamed, studied English in Florida, had a son with his American girlfriend in Ohio, and claims he's still the best English teacher in his hometown. More to the point, perhaps, he's the younger brother of President Hugo Chavez, which may be how he came to be stomping around the governor's mansion. The most important offices in the President's home state are held by members of the first family, starting with the governor, the President's father, Hugo de los Reyes Chavez...
...runs Barinas, local journalists say, is not the governor, Hugo's aging father, but rather his brother Argenis, who, as secretary of state holds a position that doesn't exist anywhere else in the country. Argenis, too, delivers anti-Bush harangues, but shorter and less spontaneous than his more famous brother's. And his audiences are smaller. At an event near Barinas commemorating independence hero Simon Bolivar's birthday, Argenis walked down a red-carpeted aisle and told a crowd seated on a high-school basketball court that Venezuela has an "ineludible commitment to march towards the socialism...
...book dispels the hagiography. He paints the Premier as thoughtful and scrupulous, yet so blinkered by loyalty to Mao that he sanctioned the arrest of his own brother. Most controversially, Gao challenges the official version of Zhou's role during the Cultural Revolution, during which an entire generation of Chinese intellectuals - including the author's mother - was purged and exiled to the countryside. Rather than mitigating the worst excesses of Mao's disastrous anti-rightist campaign - as the prevailing view holds - Zhou was an active, if not always enthusiastic, participant. Gao cites evidence in Zhou's own hand: "From...