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...that there has been more “date rape” these past several decades than ever before, as formal courtship has eroded, physical intimacy has become routine, oversexed environments (and even pathological male fantasies) are merrily facilitated, and drunkenness is de jure. The boundary of consent is blurred in these instances, as even the actors/teachers of the University-funded rape prevention theatre troupe Sex Signals admitted in its mandatory-attendance presentation to first-years last Fall.None of this mitigates the wrongness of the rapist and his crime. But even proffering the foregoing paragraphs as an explanation is what...
...stage, Elizabeth for the most part spends her time attempting to learn what she can from her wise first minister, and asking, "How will this affect the average housewife?" In some cases, Elizabeth is empowered to enforce her warning. No minister, for instance, may leave the country without her consent, and Churchill himself had to ask permission before making his plans to visit the U.S. this month...
...Queen is acutely aware that the continued success of the monarchy depends on the careful nurturing of popular consent - and that a peculiar danger of being the best-known woman in the world for over half a century is becoming background noise, ubiquitous but forgotten. Her press secretary, Penny Russell-Smith, says that the last 15 years of coverage, focused mostly on the misadventures of the younger royals, has created "a generation of readers and viewers who aren't aware of what the Queen's work is all about." The antidote is more exposure. So not for the Queen...
...more than legislation, that is likely to lead to change. Messer's 2005 bill made Indiana one of six states in the past five years to raise its minimum dropout age to 18 from 16. (Twenty-three states still let kids drop out at the younger age without parental consent.) Bridgeland, who co-wrote the Gates Foundation--funded report, supports the age hike but warns that states can't legislate in a vacuum. "These laws have to be coupled with strong support from the school and the community," he says. Underlying that conviction is perhaps the most surprising finding...
...complicated world of doctor-patient relationships, "informed" consent and the like, Dr. Stinchfield was refreshingly old school. To the patient facing surgery his pre-op discussion of risks and benefits was generally something like: "Anything can happen here but I give you my word that I'll do the very best I possibly can". He meant it - and they knew it - and however the operations came out they loved him. (Remember these were the early days of joint replacement and they didn't always work...