Word: consent
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...saying they're doing this with Bush's consent or without...
According to Massachusetts law, a lack of consent must be expressed physically or verbally; however, all the examples that we have used of why a women might high difficulty in expressing her lack of consent have stood up as evidence in criminal prosecutions (case numbers are available and can be provided on request...
Frank and Sneider chose to make the influence of alcohol your test case for the law and questions of consent. However, given the frequency with which the rapist and/or survivor is under the influence of alcohol or drugs at the time of a rape, this situation is addressed explicitly by Massachusetts law, which states that intoxication makes giving consent difficult and must be interpreted as a "no. "It is a really ridiculous point to discuss a women's responsibility for her body as justification for her rape...
...YEARS OF international fame, one of the century's most indelible (if ambiguous) images. Yet she passed the last 13 years of her life as a virtual recluse -- cranky, litigious and, considering the length and strength of her celebrity, by no means wealthy. She was, by common critical consent, one of the great stars of the movies' Golden Age. But she was never wildly popular with the mass audience and was once dubbed box-office "poison" in an exhibitors' poll...
...right to "pull from the outside"--a phrase that describes the process of auditioning and casting actors who had not originally tried out for the show. Inwood also asserts that the part was offered to Jones by the show's producer, Hubert Lin, without her prior knowledge or consent...