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Rape politics are a particularly difficult area in this respect. The more strongly we feel about the crime of rape--and the more we understand about its devastating consequences for its victims--the less inclined we are to care about the other side of the story. I have heard people say, with the most earnest passion, that if a woman says she's been raped that's enough for them--as if to need any more evidence than that was to insult and trivialize rape survivors everywhere, to perpetuate the abhorrent tradition of blaming the victim. But it should work...
...that two-sided discussion becomes impossible. Rape is one such topic. Any kind of racial bigotry is another. At the most basic level, of course, these issues are no longer up for discussion. For the most part, people are not debating the question of whether rape is a severe crime or of whether racism is wrong and destructive. These are no longer liberal causes and it would be an undeserved insult to conservatism to suggest that they are. But there are still laws and policies to be made and cases to be tried--and thus discussion remains necessary. If liberals...
...most Americans favor "zero tolerance" policies for campus violence, and many parents demand tough-minded, short-term solutions even as they wait for the results of more complex approaches like better mentoring and earlier intervention for troubled children. It may seem silly to go after a kid whose only crime is manicuring during school hours. But how do you know whom to treat sympathetically at a time when 11-year-olds commit murder? (Now 13, Nathaniel Abraham was convicted last month in Michigan of shooting a stranger in the head.) And how do you decide which kids are just morose...
...rationale for turning the television show Charlie's Angels into a movie is still a mystery, but the question of who will play the well-coiffed crime stoppers has finally been solved. Though Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz signed on months ago, producers had a devil of a time finding a third angel. At various points in the protracted casting search, everyone from Posh Spice to Angelina Jolie was touted as the leading candidate. But last week LUCY LIU, who plays the less-than-saintly Ling on Ally McBeal, nabbed the role. The movie will diverge from the series...
...your heart/And not mankind," Q-Tip raps on Do It, See It, Be It. Eclecticism is seen as a virtue. The Roots is working on a cover of Bob Dylan's 1976 song Hurricane, a protest anthem about Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, a black boxer sentenced to die for a crime he didn't commit. The song is scheduled to appear on the sound track to the Denzel Washington film The Hurricane. Mos Def is also contributing material to the album...