Word: explicitness
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...What's stopping some observers from getting too excited about the government's plan to enshrine "equal responsibility" in the Act is that it's essentially already there. Amendments in 1995 made explicit that, except in extreme circumstances, "parents share duties and responsibilities concerning the care, welfare and development of their children . . . (and) agree about the future parenting of their children." In addition, says Sydney family lawyer Hamish Cumming, assurances along these lines do little to mollify parents who feel their kids are slipping away from them. "When you try to say, 'Don't worry, you have the same level...
...released its first issue last month. Its website calls the magazine “a sex-themed publication” that involves “frank discussions about sex and nude pictures of real university students.” Its features “are necessarily explicit to accurately reflect the sexual openness of an evolving generation...
...approximately 5:30 p.m., a Cambridge resident reported that her two juvenile daughters were approached by a male approximately 40 years old, who made sexually explicit comments to them while they were at 710 Bishop Allen...
...particularly, it seems, where their author is least self-conscious about breaking our hearts. Sadie’s interactions with the pitiless Mas Stevens, whom she is first called upon to cure and to whom she is later sold, are far more effective than any of her more explicit sermonizing (e.g., “Whites always telling us don’t steal don’t lie don’t cheat. And here they come stealing us and lying to us and cheating us out our freedom.”) Rawles describes Sadie’s endurance through...
...most part, we no longer live in an age of racial essentialism. Explicit racial discrimination has been purged from our nation’s laws, and racist comments have largely disappeared from American public discourse. Now, black people can legally share water fountains, restaurants and even Harvard classes with non-black people. But while de jure segregation and discrimination are in their death throes, their de facto manifestations are as strong as ever worldwide. Collectively, black infants in America, the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa are nearly ten times more likely to die in their first year than their white...