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...largely stems for a tremendous sense of fear. Battered women who have killed their husbands occasionally make the last page of the national news, but Lorena Bobbitt horrified Americans because she fulfilled every man's worse nightmare: a fear of castration. Not only had Mrs. Bobbitt committed a unspeakable deed, she was supported by women who seemed to be vicariously living through her. "I feel like we're kindred sisters," said one woman who attended all three days of Bobbitt's trial. "I never thought about cutting off my husband's penis, but I wished and prayed that it would...
...learned to say out loud since she wielded her knife last June, she cut off his penis. "Fifty years ago, Lorena Bobbitt would have been convicted without a shadow of a doubt," says Lawrence Friedman, a Stanford law professor. "They would not have listened to any argument that her deed was justified by a history of abuse. They would have focused on the act itself, which horrifies all males...
...that Tonya can win the Olympics. They're going to break ((Kerrigan's)) legs." The plans did not go at all smoothly. Eckardt, she says, had to deal with two sets of hit men. The first pair absconded with $55,000 without doing the deed. Eckardt, she said, "was really upset. He said, 'They took all my money! How am I going to pay for this...
...Land Co. sold a 3,600-acre tract in northern Arkansas to a company called 101 River Development Inc. for a price equivalent to about $400 an acre. On Aug. 2, a 230-acre parcel was resold. The buyers: Bill and Hillary Clinton and James and Susan McDougal. A deed examined by TIME in the Marion County seat of Yellville is recorded in their individual names; tax stamps indicate the price was $203,000, or roughly $882 an acre -- more than double the per-acre price only 19 days earlier. Little more than a year later, on Sept...
...courts have not made this connection yet," Lewis said, slamming his hand down on the table. "They will never be so idiotic as to declare a word a deed...