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What lies at the crux of the matter is not what happens when a woman says "no" and is ingored. All agree this constitutes rape. What is under consideration are situations in which a woman does not "say no," but nor does she say "yes." The new proposed definition is an attempt to take into account situations in which no clear "no" was spoken, but ones in which it was nevertheless signified...
...which they will--there will be nice, long dialogues, with no cameras. The group and the politicians should probably set ground rules at the start: The group has an hour to express its concerns or ask its questions. The politician gets the same amount to respond. This is the crux of the idea--a willingness to engage in substantive, unfettered, unedited, unrehearsed discussion. The people who lead these groups, whether students or activists, must believe the spectacle is only a threat, and that the debate is all important...
Gilbert says, however, that although curing and preventing disease is the crux of medicine, scientists have other motivations to experiment in biology...
...Borders should lose their divisive nature for people. This is the crux of the open question for all Europeans, a question concerning human rights and human dignity for everyone, not just for one nation or solely for the West," he said...
...crux of women's existence, the researchers contend, is the sense of relationship, the interconnectedness of people. That notion challenges long- accepted theories of human psychological development. As set out by Freud and his largely male successors, healthy emotional growth is marked by a striving for autonomy. People who deviate from that pattern, as many women do, have often been considered immature, even psychologically ill -- victims, perhaps, of dependent personality disorder. But critics charge that that orthodox psychological dogma is based almost exclusively on studies of men. Ignoring women distorted the picture. The male voice, in effect, became the human...