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...profits Walt Disney Co. has racked up on videocassettes of its 1955 classic, Lady and the Tramp. Lee, 70, who sang four parts and co-wrote six songs for the animated film, sought $50 million under a contract that barred Disney from making "transcriptions" of her work without her consent. Lee had received just $3,500 for her contributions to the film...
...Western medicine and may not fully comprehend the risks of participating. Explains Dr. David Heymann, chief of the research office at the WHO Global Program on AIDS: "It is vital that African volunteers understand that they are getting an experimental product that might not work." Without such "informed consent," doctors cannot in good conscience carry out their research, and may face charges that they are using people as guinea pigs. "The problem," concluded a report from last month's meeting at the Institute of Medicine, "will be to avoid what has been called 'safari research' or 'medical imperialism' while gathering...
...Mutual consent does not mean the lack of physical resistance. It means both parties taking full, active responsibility for each other. If a man wants to have sex with a woman regardless of whether it's right for her, then he's violating her in intention. If he acts on that intention, then he's violating her physically...
Moreover, law students would consent to serve by deciding to apply for admission to the bar, just as medical students consent to work as residents. Public service would simply be made a requirement for the practice of law. No one is forced to be a lawyer. Those who choose to be choose the responsibilities as well as the privileges...
MORGAN ASSERTS that "'no' is the bare minimum statement to constitute resistance." But he goes on to argue that in our society "'no' does not always mean 'no.'" This leaves women in a very dangerous position--they must say "no" to indicate lack of consent, but "no" is not understood to be a lack of consent...