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Roiphe criticized women who call any sexual encounter that doesn't include explicit consent rape because, she said, this attitude portrays women as constantly in need of protection...

Author: By Shirin Sinnar, | Title: Roiphe Criticizes Extreme Feminism | 10/14/1994 | See Source »

...consider all the traffic on the Internet each month, about 11 percent is used by the news groups. Of this, about 20.6 percent is used on actual images or the discussion of sexually explicit material. Bear in mind, however, that we're still only talking about traffic in terms of actual megabytes. In real terms, only 18,000 actual articles related to pornographic images or sexually explicit messages were posted last month. That is less than one percent of all messages. The reason so much traffic is used by so few messages is that pictures are a lot bigger than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Internet Coverage Displays Ignorance | 10/11/1994 | See Source »

...news, however. Pornography is available at Video Pros, at Out-of-Town News, through the mail and on CD-ROM. Is it any surprise that it is also available over the Internet? Every new technology has at some point or other been used as a medium for sexually explicit materials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Internet Coverage Displays Ignorance | 10/11/1994 | See Source »

...development may have been as important as any documented event. Joplin had a fierce desire to show the whites in America that blacks were their equal in every respect. Repeatedly he admonished his fellow blacks that education was the way to first-class citizenship, and indeed that is the explicit theme of Treemonisha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: American Schubert | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

While Clinton realizes he needs to court public support, he does not intend to seek explicit congressional approval. Lawmakers do not seem sufficiently united to block an invasion, but Republicans can be counted on to criticize the President. They are already charging that an invasion is just a political stunt timed to boost the Democrats' sagging electoral fortunes. In fact what most Congressmen really want, says a Capitol Hill staff member, "is to be consulted, but let Clinton take the heat." Beginning Monday, the Administration's national-security officials will launch a sortie on Capitol Hill to brief key lawmakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: This Time We Mean Business | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

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