Word: consented
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...definitions suggested by the Task Force and the council are somewhat different in focus. The Task Force's report recommends that rape be defined as sex which "occurs without the expressed consent of the person...
Malcolm A. Heinicke '93, who drafted the definition, said he was uncomfortable with the emphasis placed on expressed consent in the Task Force's recommendation...
Theater is particularly effective in communicating the ambiguities involved in the question of sexual consent versus sexual acquiescence. Rasminsky juxtaposes two versions of the scene in A Streetcar Named Desire in which Stanley carries Blanche off to bed, the first version as a seduction, the second as a rape: the dialogue in both versions is identical, suggesting that the question of literal consent remains problematic. Raz contends that popular culture pretends that consent is not problematic: "Stanley is a big bad hero, infamously protrayed by Marlon Brando. But a lot of our literary heroes depend on power and sexual control...
...philandering as examples of his "violations of moral rules." The author dismisses opposing speculations of why Kennedy was killed, saying the Mafia did not participate in the assassination because "for a hit to have been made against the President, ((Chicago Mob boss)) Sam Giancana would have had to consent...
...being; so many things needed improvement that only Superman could have accomplished them all at once. And the state constitution ensures that no Governor will ever resemble Superman. The chief executive's powers are strictly limited by a weak veto. To get anything positive accomplished, he must win the consent of an often balky legislature and entrenched industries that are frequently intransigent...